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This year, EY is celebrating the achievements of 31 entrepreneurial stars in the Pacific region through the prestigious EY Entrepreneur Of The Year ™ awards program.

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Tony Singh is one of the finalists for the EY Entrepreneur Tony Singh Of The Year ™ 2015 Awards. It is a tremendous accomplishment to make the finalist selection. One of these category winners will be named the overall Pacific winner. Award finalists are chosen based on their vision, leadership, innovation, financial success, personal integrity, and work in giving back to their communities.

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Nina and Gurmant Grewal’s son removed as candidate

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urmant Grewal and Nina Grewal’s son, Liv Grewal, has been ousted as the Conservative party candidate in the new BC riding of Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon. His removal is mysterious as it is sudden, ending the Grewal family dream of having a “mother and son” sit together in Parliament for the first time. Liv Grewal sent out a press release on Wednesday afternoon, claiming that he had withdrawn as the candidate for the new riding but giving no reasons as to why he, as a nominated candidate of the Conservatives and son of sitting Fleetwood Ports Kells MP, Nina Grewal, would suddenly withdraw his name.

However, he did complain in the press release that “ I’m disappointed with this decision by the Party. Sadly, it is the result of an unfair political process.” This last sentence in the press release makes it clear that the younger Grewal did not go willingly or voluntarily and that he was pushed out. Why is something that lots of people are wondering about. The Vancouver Sun reported that its sources have indi-

Abbotsford Police charge South Asian men with threatening seniors

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bbotsford Police have charged four young men after complaints that seniors were threatened and insulted in a park. Police say the suspects drove through Goldfinch Park in a car, hurling insults at the seniors and ordering them to leave or they’d be killed. The seniors told police one of the suspects used a megaphone to yell at them. They were using Mom and Dad’s car to harass other people’s grandparents,” said Abbotsford Police Cst. Ian MacDonald. On July 18, police stopped a car with four occupants near the park. One of the passengers appeared to be raising a megaphone to his mouth.

Amarprit Singh Dhaliwal, 19, Gobind Denzil Singh Pangli, 19 and Suraj Singh Narang, 18, are charged with uttering threats and causing a disturbance. A 17-year-old has also been charged but can’t be named.

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Fleetwood-Port Kells MP Nina Grewal (left) and her son Liv Grewal with Laureen Harper

cated that Grewal’s ouster came after an investigation showed that perhaps some membership in the new ridings were paid for by the Grewal supporters. Conservative Party communications director Cory Hahn confirmed that Live Grewal has been removed as the party candidate.

“I can only say the party is running fair and open nominations. Any accusations of breaking rules Continued on page 6

“Inappropriate” for foreign politicians to engage in political activities here – Jason Kenney

By Umendra Singh inister of Defense and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, said it is inappropriate for foreign politicians, especially those from Punjab and India, to make political comments, hold political rallies and collect funds for political purposes in Canada. He was replying to a question from the press about Punjab’s Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat, Sikander Singh Maluka, who was critical of the RCMP after a rally last week in Abbotsford at which Maluka was to speak was cancelled. Politicians from India, specifically those from Punjab, have made it a habit to make tracks to BC and Canada during the summer months to meet potential supporters, hold political meetings and, according to some reports, Continued on page 3

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Trudeau shuts down NDP MP’s coalition suggestion: ‘Out of the question’

ustin Trudeau bluntly shut down the possibility of a Liberal-NDP coalition on Thursday after a prominent NDP MP floated the idea as a way of ousting the ruling Conservatives.

“A formal coalition is out of the question,” the Liberal Party leader said at a Winnipeg news conference. “There are a number of issues on which the Liberal party and the NDP disagree on a quite a fundamental level.”

The remarks followed Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen’s suggestion that the NDP were willing to join forces. In a Wednesday interview with the Canadian Press, Cullen said while winning a majority in this fall’s federal election is still his party’s goal, ultimately the number-one priority is toppling the Tories. “The Liberal voters that I know are as fed up with Stephen Harper as anybody,” Cullen said. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, alongside Manitoba Liberal candi-

dates, at a Winnipeg news conference Thursday where he rejected any suggestion of a coalition with the NDP. But Trudeau quickly dismissed the idea Thursday, saying that “Canadians are in desperate need of a better government, not just a different government.”

“We do not believe in reducing the amount of options that Canadians have at the ballot box,” he said. Trudeau has previously rejected the idea of an NDP-Liberal coalition, though earlier this year he said he might be more open to the possibility if Tom Mulcair were not at the party’s helm.

The last time the idea of a coalition government was seriously floated was seven years ago, when the NDP, Liberals and Bloc Quebecois came together to force the government out of office. Their efforts were thwarted when the Governor General, at the prime minister’s request, prorogued Parliament, effectively putting it on pause until the new

Minister for Defence and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney (third from left) and Minister of State for Multculturalism Tim Uppal (right) visited with Paul Bhogal of Sunrise Kitchen Cabinets (fourth from right) and Harjinder Bhogal (second from left) and family members in Surrey last week. Also in the picture is Conservative candidate for Surrey - Newton Harpreet Singh (left). Photo by Surya Studio.

NDP holds lead in public support, poll predicts minority government The federal New Democratic Party continues to hold the lead in public support, according to a new Forum Research poll conducted this week.

The survey found the NDP ahead with 34 per cent support, while the Liberals and Conservatives were locked in a statistical tie at 29 per cent and 28 per cent respectively.

The Bloc and Greens are far back at 5 per cent NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, his wife Catherine Pinhas Muland 4 per cent respectively.

The NDP have cair and federal candidate Ethan Rabidoux take a look at a been leading or tied few calves at the Slits Dairy Farm in Brunner, Ont. for the lead in Forum’s polls for the past several weeks. would make the best prime minister. MulLorne Bozinoff, president of Fo- cair is seen as the best option with 29 rum Research, said the trend shows per cent picking him. Fewer — 25 per NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair ap- cent — chose Prime Minister Stephen pears to be impressing Canadian voters. Harper, and 20 per cent said Trudeau.

“We have entered a period where the staProjected onto a 338-seat House of Comtus quo is likely to remain static at least until mons, the poll results indicate the NDP after the summer ends. Voters have changed would capture a minority government of their minds over the summer, and now see 134 seats, the Conservatives 121 seats, and Tom Mulcair as the anti-Harper, rather than the Liberals 78. The Bloc would seat four (Liberal Leader) Justin Trudeau, who held members and Green Party Leader Elizathis position most of last year,’’ Bozinoff said beth May would retain her seat, Forum said. in a statement released with the poll results.

The Forum poll was conducted July 19 But Bozinoff added that Trudeau was the and 20. A total of 1,208 Canadian adults “flavour of the month” when he was fresh were questioned using a random, interacand unknown, but now he’s no longer fresh, is tive voice response telephone survey. The better known, and has lost some of his lustre. results are considered accurate, plus or miBozinoff added that Mulcair spent nus 3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. his time grinding away in the House Forum’s poll is weighted statistically of Commons in Ottawa, “demonstrat- by age, region and other variables to ening commitment and competence, and sure the sample reflects the actual poputhat has paid off, after almost three years. lation according to the latest census data.

“Voters now see him as the most comThe weighting formula has been shared petent leader in the country, and are will- with the Star, and raw polling results are ing to offer him their vote,” Bozinoff added. housed at the University of Toronto’s poThe poll asked respondents to say who litical science department’s data library.

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“Vanakkam” touting Jason Kenney wins hearts in Surrey

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t is for a reason that people, especially the varied ethnic communities of Metro Vancouver break into a smile each time Minister of Defence and Minister of Multiculturalism comes visiting.

Not only does he do his homework well, he has a way with words and this was evident at Surrey’s Yoga Hanuman Temple in Surrey this week, at a short visit that minister Kenney made to the temple.

Kenney was welcomed by priests chanting Sanskrit mantras led by the head priest Sri Ram Shakti Bhattar and in response, Kenney with a warm smile on his face greeted the small gathering by saying Vanakkam, the Tamil word for welcome or Namaste, immediately bringing a smile on every one’s faces.

Yoga Hanuman Temple is a small, Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman in the heart of Newton and caters to a small group of worshippers, most of whom hail from South India. This group of people are generally non-political and steer clear from political controversies rarely making their presence felt by involving themselves in large political functions or fundraisings, but nevertheless form a vibrant part of Canada’s multicultural fabric. And therefore when Minister Kenney decided to visit the temple, and speak in a smattering of Tamil and talk about Hindu philosophy and yoga and meditation and refer to the place of worship as “mandir”

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and not temple and touch the panditji’s feet in order to seek blessings, it was more than a pleasant surprise.

“I was surprised that the minister agreed to visit us at such short notice but we are definitely pleased,” said priest Shi Ram Shakti Bhattar.

Minister Kenney was accompanied by Harpreet Singh, Conservative candidate for the new riding of Surrey Newton in the upcoming federal elections.

After brief prayers for both Kenney and Harpreet Singh, the Minister addressed the small gathering talking about his knowledge of the Hindu faith and how impressed he was with Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. “He urged me to practice yoga and meditation as well, but I don’t think I can do it,” joked Minister Kenney.

Since the last few weeks there have been a number of Conservative Ministers visiting Metro Vancouver and specially to Surrey to show support for the party’s local candidates.

The riding of Surrey Newton is especially interesting with a tight three way race predicted between NDP’s Jinny Sims, Conservative’s Harpreet Singh and the Liberal’s Sukh Dhaliwal. In an interview , Kenney dismissed claims that this time around electioneering seems more hectic and driven.

“We have summer time now and before the elections, people have a bit more time to do community work. But I do agree that this

Minister for Defence and Multi-culturalism Jason Kenney with Temple priest ri Ram Shakti Bhattar and devotees at Yoga Hanuman Temple in Surrey last week. will be closely contested election between tation of Foreign Criminals Act in China the Conservatives and the NDP. It will be a Town, specifically before the ethnic media in contest between higher taxes and lower taxes, last campaign because these were the combetween balanced budgets and deficits and munities who were demanding that foreign between tough on crime and soft on crime,” criminals be removed from Canada. “I don’t buy for a moment that this makes immisaid Minister Kenney.

On the topic of Conservatives immigra- grants feel insecure. I think what makes them tion policies and the Faster Removal of For- feel insecure are criminals and terrorists and eign Criminals Act, Kenney said he didn’t we are committed to making Canada safer,” believe for a minute that immigrants were said Minister Kenney.

And lastly when asked which portfolio feeling insecure or isolated in the country.

“Immigrants don’t feel insecure, they feel Minister Kenney enjoys more - Defence or grateful rather and they all want national Multiculturalism, in typical Jason Kenney security” said Kenney adding that it was no style, he quipped,” Both are privileges, but I coincidence that he announced our intention can say that eating is definitely better in multo introduce the faster Removal and Depor- ticulturalism.”

Surrey RCMP, Vancouver police, investigate possible swatting case

ounties in Surrey and the Vancouver police are investigating a possible swatting case after someone called police claiming there had been a shooting at a house in Surrey. Vancouver police received the call shortly after 2 a.m. about a shooting in the 12800-block of 68A Avenue. RCMP attended, spoke to the residents — a family with two

children — and searched the home. Officers quickly determined that no shooting had occurred and it was fake call. Police do not yet have a suspect in the case, but they are working with the VPD to trace the call, said Surrey RCMP Cpl. Scotty Schumann. Schumann said these types of calls are a huge risk to emergency first responders and it’s a drain on

public resources. Emergency resources that were sent out included more than 10 police cars, two ambulances, and a fire truck. Swatting, which involves tricking emergency responders (a SWAT team) into deploying to a location where no emergency is taking place, is a serious criminal offence and can land the offender in jail. A Coquitlam teen was

sentenced earlier this month to 16 months in jail for numerous swatting cases across the continent. The 17 year old, who cannot be named under Canada’s youth laws, pleaded guilty to 23 charges, including nine offences for criminal harassment, eight for public mischief, four counts for extortion and one for uttering threats.

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By Umendra Singh Jason Kenney, at your service – wherever, whenever, whatever With Tim Uppal as his Punjabi speaking side-kick Minister for National Defense and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, is in town for a With Minister of State for Multiculturalism ing to people and hugging them as if it is a couple of weeks (make that three weeks if you Tim Uppal in tow, Kenney is visiting every- strict workout regimen and speaking on immiwish, or four, Kenney will most likely satisfy where he can and anywhere you want. gration as if he is still the Minister of Immigrayour wish).

He is shaking hands by the thousands, bow- tion (which he is not).

A likely day for Kenney - visit a temple, several Gurdwaras, visit few other places of worships, visit many, many homes, have many, many, many cups of tea, shake thousands of hands, hug hundreds of people as if they were long lost relatives, touch feet of priests I temples to get their blessings, laugh heartily every five minutes or so and talk of what a wonderful job his Conservative government has done on immigration.

He throws out numbers on immigration as he if he has studied it as a LSAT subject on which he will be tested daily.

The drought-stricken residents of Metro Vancouver may be forgiven for asking why the good Minister is not talking about the droughtlike conditions and the forest fires which are plaguing this part of BC. The crime stricken residents of Surrey may be forgiven for asking why only 6 of the 100 promised RCMP Officers are here fighting crime.

AAh but those are not “good news” stories that the Minister wants to talk about. He will genially answer questions on the subject if pushed to do so but talking about defense, forest fires and cri e in Surrey are not at the top of his list of talking points.

He is here to boost the Conservative Party numbers and he can do that best by talking on immigration – even if he is not the Minister for Immigration.

The Conservative party strategists have obviously decided that Kenney is the best person \to garner support for the Party in Metro Vancouver. So here he is, with Uppal in tow to throw in a few words in Punjabi.

Federal Ministers rarely stay in Metro Vancouver for a few days, let along a few weeks, so this is a unique event. If you have a wedding or a party or a birthday in the next couple of weeks and need a star attract, call Kenney’s ofContinued on page 11

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7-year-old girl confronts armed robbers in home invasion

seven-year-old girl who had a gun pointed at her in a shocking home invasion in East Vancouver confronted the robbers after one struck her grandfather in the head with the weapon, the girl’s father said.

The girl was home with her grandparents when two men dressed as construction workers forced their way into the house, corralled the family in the living room and then ransacked the house searching for valuables.

One of the men struck the girl’s grandfather twice in the head with a gun, according to a man who identified himself as Andrew and as the father of the girl.

After the robber hit the grandfather a second time, the girl yelled back.

“My daughter got mad,” said Andrew in a phone interview with reporters. “She yelled ‘Stop it. Don’t do that.’ “ When the robbers continued to demand money, Andrew said his daughter grabbed his piggy bank and handed it over to the in-

His two kids were home with their grandparents. The men demanded money but the grandparents said they had none in the house.

“I don’t think this is something that this family will ever forget,” said Va n c o u v e r police Const.

Randy Fincham. “The family is unVancouver police are asking for help from the public to find two men derstandably who broke into a home in East Vancouver. d ist r au g ht .”

One of the men was white with a slim truders. They also took a valuable Rolex watch. build, 25 to 45 years old, with a shaved Demanded money head and tattoos covering his arms. The The men knocked on the door of a home other is described as dark skinned with a located on the 3300 block of Dieppe Drive at thin beard, and between 20 to 30 years old. about 3.30 p.m. on June 17. Andrew said he Both were wearing reflective vests. was not at home and his wife was at work.

Harper vows not to appoint any senators before reforms made 22 seats vacant as prime minister pledges not to appoint anyone until Senate is reformed Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he’ll formalize an unofficial policy not to appoint any senators until the Senate is reformed, adding he hopes it will put pressure on the provinces to figure out a plan to update the institution.

Harper said the benefit is that costs are down $6 million with 22 seats now unfilled. He said the provinces have so far been “resistant” to reform.

Harper said the policy will remain in place as long as the government can pass its legislation.

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Continued from page 1 e investigate them and review them the Department of Strategic Communication. and that’s as much as I will say on Mr. Grewal has contributed as a volunteer in the matter,” Hahn told The Vanseven federal election campaigns and three couver Sun. Media outlets have reported that leadership races. Many Conservative MPs have the Conservative investigation was into allegaendorsed Grewal’s candidacy, calling him an tions that his camp paid for memberships and intelligent, articulate, and passionate individual that members were influence not to cooperate who has the potential to be a strong leader. with the internal party review. In any case, the Grewal had submitted a fair majority of the Grewal family seems to have lost favour with total 3900 memberships. Grewal said that he, the federal Conservative party. Liv’s father his volunteer team and his family including Gurmant is a former Conservative MP, and his 80 year old grandmother had worked hard had planned a comeback in the new riding of day in and day out for many months knockCloverdale-Langley City. However, he wasn’t ing doors to convince residents to become allowed by the party to join that nomination members of the Conservative Party. 100% contest. Here’s the news release issued by Liv of all membership forms were submitted by Grewal: personal cheques or credit cards and all forms Grewal Withdraws as the Conservative were duly signed by the members agreeing to Candidate in Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canthe terms and conditions of the membership. yon Abbotsford, B.C. – Liv Grewal will not The Party had done its due diligence by calling be a Conservative Party candidate in the next the membership prior to the vote. An experifederal election in the new constituency of enced Returning Officer then conducted the Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon (MMFC). nomination vote, as per the Party’s rules and Grewal won the nomination in the first ballot the result was duly announced. “For as long garnering 54% of the votes against four othas I can remember, I’ve always been passionate er candidates on May 2nd, 2015. Mr. Grewal about public service. Over the last 18 years, I graduated in Political Science with Honours have been actively participating in the Reform from Simon Fraser University and holds a Party of Canada, Canadian Alliance, and then Masters in Public Management and Goverto the Conservative Party of Canada. I’m disnance with Merit from the London School appointed with this decision by the Party. Sadof Economics. Grewal has interned in the ly, it is the result of an unfair political process.”

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Abbotsford Police charge South Asian men with threatening seniors Continued from page 1 voices as they drove by. MacDonald said poConst. MacDonald said police were alert- lice received further information that the haed to the circumstances when they received a rassment had begun on Wednesday and had report that four young men had been driving continued on a daily basis. On Saturday at 8 around Goldfinch Park (located off Goldfinch p.m., two officers stopped a blue Infiniti sedan Street in west Abbotsford), yelling at people in with four young men near the park. One of the park and throwing rocks at them. the passengers appeared to be raising a megaMacDonald said the park is mostly used by phone to his mouth just before the interacsenior South Asian men, who meet there to tion with police, MacDonald said. Based on play cards and socialize. He said the teens al- descriptions and details provided by the witlegedly yelled at the seniors to get out of the nesses and additional evidence, the four teens park or they would be hurt or killed. were arrested and have now been charged with “(They yelled) completely rude, crude and uttering threats and causing a disturbance. threatening things,” MacDonald said.

MacDonald said police have had previous inPatrol officers stepped up enforcement teractions with two of the suspects. near the park and spoke to park-goers who He said police are perplexed about what said they were scared that the young men would motivate anyone to carry out such bewould follow through on their threats. haviour. “It’s a head-scratcher … None of the Many of them said the suspects had been four were taking the situation very seriously, using some type of device to amplify their even when they were arrested,” he said.

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RCMP say 1,228 people in B.C. found sharing child porn over six months

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CMP say a disturbing number of residents have been found sharing child pornography online, with more than 1,200 individual cases discovered over a six-month period last year.

Insp. Ed Boettcher, a spokesman for the RCMP’s Integrated Child Exploitation Unit, says between April 1 and September 30, investigators tracked known illegal material that was exchanged online through peer-to-peer file sharing and found 1,228 unique instances in B.C. “Frankly, even as a police officer who investigates this type of crime, the extent of problem is disturbing,� said Boettcher,

in a statement Wednesday. “A single exchange of material where a child was victimized is too many, this many instances over a six-month period is tragic.�

This was the first time a project like this was conducted in B.C., he said, and as a result investigators cannot say whether the issue is getting worse or better. “This project established a baseline of what was happening in the province, and we feel that it is important for the public to be aware of the issue,� he said.

He said the RCMP is working with local police throughout the province to investigate the incidents further.

BC Ferries accused of hiding email to Transportation Minister Todd Stone An email sent by BC Ferries CEO Mike Corrigan to Transportation Minister Todd Stone has become a political hot potato after the Opposition NDP accused the ferry service of trying to hide the embarrassing exchange.

The B.C. NDP filed a freedom of information request for any emails between Corrigan and Stone sent between January 1 and March 31 this year, receiving a “no records� response.

At the time, Corrigan told CBC Radio 1 that his exchanges with the minister were always by phone or face-to-face.

But the subsequent emergence of an email from the CEO to Stone produced from the same request to the Ministry of Transportation suggests otherwise, the NDP said today.

In the February email, Corrigan told Stone that his comments on a BC Ferries policy were, “not helpful or productive,� and that the minister should “take this into consideration when commenting� in the future.

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urges Smith said denunciation and deterrence must be applied in the case. Robinson, who was led away in handcuffs, also must serve one year probation and perform 240 hours of community work.

The four officers who surrounded Dziekanski at Vancouver’s airport in October 2007 were tried separately. Robinson was found guilty along with Const. Kwesi Millington, but the two other officers involved were acquitted.

The Crown had asked for a threeyear prison term, while defence called for a conditional sentence for Robinson, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in a separate trial after the vehicle he was driving hit and killed a young motorcyclist in October 2008.

During the sentencing hearing in June, Robinson’s lawyer called his client the poster child for failure who might be able to bring some insight to others, especially those in the First Nations community. Robinson’s troubles led the RCMP to single him out as a bad apple within its ranks. The four officers went to Vancouver’s airport on Oct. 14, 2007, after Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant who spoke no English, started throwing furniture. Within seconds of their arrival, Dziekanski was jolted several times with a Taser and died on the floor of the arrivals terminal. The Crown claimed during the trial that the officers concocted a story to give to homicide investigators and then lied to the public inquiry to explain why their first statements didn’t match with the amateur video that was later released. During his sentencing hearing, Smith noted that all the officers made similar mistakes, including their incorrect claim that Dziekanski was wrestled to the ground. The judge said the only explanation was that the Mounties worked together on their stories. “I simply do not believe that a police officer of his experience could make such a crucial mistake in these circumstances,” Smith ruled. Millington, was given a 30-month prison sentence in June, but has been granted bail while he appeals the conviction.

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B.C. government moves to seize date rape condo in Vancouver

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he B.C. government wants to seize the apartment of a Vancouver man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman after giving her the date rape drug GHB. The director of civil forfeiture alleges that if the suite where Seyed Nima Razavi Zadeh committed the sexual assault isn’t forfeited, he’s likely to use it again to commit “unlawful activities.”

“Nima Razavi used the property as a staging ground to commit multiple sexual assaults and to store GHB which he used to facilitate those sexual assaults,” says a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court.

“The property is an instrument of unlawful activity because it was used to engage in the unlawful activity that in turn caused or was likely to cause serious bodily harm to a person.”

Premier Christy Clark (second from right) posing with her supporters for a selfie at reception for her at the home of Barj Dhahan in Vancouver. Photo by Chandra Bodalia.

Robyn Gill overcomes gang life to place first in bodybuilding nationals

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tanding on the Dalhousie Arts Centre stage in Halifax — clad in a bright blue bikini with her long dark hair draped over one shoulder — Surrey’s Robyn Gill listened intently for her name and number.

The personal trainer and competitive bodybuilder had made it to the top five in her figure class at the Canadian Body Building Federation’s National Bikini, Figure, Fitness and Physique Championships last Saturday night.

Focused and completely still, holding her pose and smile, she stood among Canada’s best female bodybuilders as they awaited the final results.

The judge called out fifth place, then fourth, then third — and Gill had yet to hear her name or her number, 228.

“Then second place was called out — number 220 (Melanie Girard from Quebec),” Gill recalled. “I like had a heart attack, because at that point you know you won.”

“I dropped my whole pose and my face dropped and I didn’t know what to do.

“I was freaking out. I started screaming thank you to the judges, I’m like screaming, I’m jumping — it was like I won the lottery.” But it was much more than luck of the draw that got Gill to that stage last weekend. Her physical training only took a short two years (it usually takes about two years of training just to reach a novice stage). She set the national championships as her goal in spring 2013 and with hard work and determination placed second at her first novice competition in B.C. later that fall, then took fourth in provincials which ultimately led her to nationals in Halifax.

And while it seems like an impressive

Robyn Gill fast track to success, it took a lifetime of struggle to get to where she is today.

When Gill was 17, her mother, who was bipolar, committed suicide. That tragedy sent Gill into a “downward spiral,” she told

The Province in a previous interview. Gill got involved with gangsters and drug dealers in Surrey and found herself in and out of the court system for assault charges and driving infractions. While she managed to get out of the gang lifestyle, she later struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts after suffering a series of devastating losses, including the deaths of her father, grandmother, grandfather and childhood friend — ­ all within a few short months. But her goal to make it to the national bodybuilding stage gave her something to live for. “It feels like a dream, I can’t believe it,” Gill said of her win. “To me this is everything. “I said, at my lowest point, I’d ... make it to best in Canada. It shows that you can really be anything you set your heart on.”

The 16 weeks leading up to the competition were particularly gruelling for Gill. Her diet consisted of unseasoned eggs, chicken,

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Razavi purchased the 16th-floor suite at 550 Taylor St. in November 2006 for $289,000, according to the writ.

In February this year, he transferred ownership of the property to his mother, Zarrin Dokht Sadeghi, for the sum of $1, allegedly to dodge any forfeiture proceedings.

“The transfer of ownership of the property from Nima Razavi to Zarrin Sadeghi was a fraudulent conveyance effected to hinder the plaintiff and/or others from obtaining their just and lawful remedies flowing from the use of the property as an instrument of unlawful activity, namely sexual assault,” says the writ.

On July 6, a provincial court judge found Seyed Nima Razavi Zadeh guilty of the sexual assault of a woman who can only be identified by the initials J.C. due to a publication ban.

beef and rice. “That’s all I ate every single day,” she said. “For 16 weeks I didn’t even cheat once.” At 10 weeks before the show she carb-cycled (one day eating carbs, the next without). With six weeks to go she was doing “morning fasted cardio” (cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach). By July 1, 18 days before the competition, she was training every day — no rest. “It was very strenuous and tiring ... to go two weeks without stop,” she said. “I was getting so lean and so depleted.” She was down to 113 pounds (her normal weight is usually a lean and muscular 120 pounds). In the off season she lifts heavy — an overhead press with 40-pound dumbbells in each hand — but at this stage, she could barely lift 10 to 15 pounds.

“Everything was aching on me but I just had to keep pushing through it,” she said.

And it all paid off. “I still can’t believe it,” Gill said, still in awe of her big win.

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Jason Kenney, at your service – wherever, whenever, whatever

With Tim Uppal as his Punjabi speaking side-kick fice. Chances are, he will turn up there and put up quite a show – for free.

On Tuesday morning, Kenney held a press conference for the South Asian media. And he was in top form.

He spoke of how well the Conservative government ahs done on immigration as far as South Asians are concerned, specially people from Punjab and India, compared to the federal Liberals. He accused local NDP MP, Jinny Sims, of lying on immigration numbers and even got colleague Tim Uppal to nod in agreement.

Kenney claimed that Sims was wrong in alleging that the Conservative government had reduced family reunification and proudly said that his government had issued 17,000 super visas to Indian parents and grand parents – with most of these super visas being issued within the 50 days of application. He did a slick video presentation showing how immigration numbers under the Conservatives have gone up compared to when the federal Liberals were in control. His charts showed that from 1993 to until they were ousted by the Conservatives in 2005, Liberals averaged 222,000 permanent residents year while the Conservatives averaged almost 258,000 permanent residence a year from 2006 to date, even topping out at 280,000 immigrants in a couple of years.

There was not one instance when the Liberals did better than the Conservatives when numbers and percentages are compared, according to Kenney’s presentation.

He said that there were 400,000 refugee claimants a year under the Liberals, mainly from democratic countries in Europe whereas under the Conservatives, the refugee applicants are now at 10,000 a year – mostly from dictatorships.

The Minister’s attention was diverted briefly to answer a prepared answer on why there is such a delay in getting RCMP Officers onto the streets of Surrey and the and reputation that the F-35 fighters jets has garnered. Then it was back to more on immigration, immigration, immigration.

The Conservative strategists have decided that Jason Kenney talking about immigration is the best way to attract South Asian support (not Nina Grewal talking about anything else). Let there be no doubt about it. Jason Kenney is good at what he does.

In fact, he is very good at what he does. If you were to start a brand new political party, Jason Kenney would be an ideal person to have on your side to promote the new party.

And he is doing a fine job promoting the Conservatives in Metro Vancouver for two weeks – or three or maybe even four weeks.

Or for as long as it takes!

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Cooler weather takes edge off 45 new wildfires in B.C. Forty-five new wildfires were sparked in British Columbia on Tuesday, but an official with the Wildfire Management Branch notes the picture is not as bleak as it could be.Fire information officer Ryan Turcot says cooler, unsettled conditions have had a slightly moderating effect.

He says the latest fires are not as aggressive as those sparked Monday, but adds gusty winds are complicating fire fighting efforts in southern B.C.

Turcot says most of the new fires are concentrated in the Kamloops and Southeast fire centres. There are seven evacuation alerts or orders in place for residents near B.C. fire lines, including an order for those who live in 70 homes near the Westside Road fire outside West Kelowna where a fire that flared Monday is spreading uncontrolled. Statistics show 1,292 blazes recorded this season, pushing firefighting costs to $136-million, with bills mounting daily.

Only 6 of 100 police officers in Surrey so far

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ore than a month after the federal government said Surrey had 20 new police officers, the city has only received six new Mounties.

Conservative Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Steven Blaney was at the Delta Public Safety Building Tuesday for a forum with local mayors.

At a media scrum afterward, Blaney said Surrey had 33 new officers in April, and six more since.

However, the 33 were owed this

city from last year, he acknowledged when asked by the media.

He confirmed that Surrey has only six of the 100 it’s asked for this year.

He would not say how many of the 100 will be delivered before the federal election in October.

“I can’t commit to this number,” Blaney said. “The number is evolving every day, there are more coming in the coming weeks. We will keep you updated.”

More than five weeks ago, Blaney said Surrey

RCMP release photo of bank robbery suspect RCMP are hoping the public can help identify a man who allegedly robbed a bank in South Surrey recently. On July 13 shortly after noon, police responded to a robbery at a bank in the 1600-block of 152nd Street. Police say the man didn’t use a weapon, and no one was hurt.

RCMP won’t divulge the amount of money stolen. The suspect is described as a 25-year-old man, five feet 10 inches, 200 pounds with tattoos across his left hand fingers. He was wearing a dark-coloured New York Yankees hat with pinstripes, a grey and beige coloured shirt with “G Unit and Co” across the back, grey

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Richmond man arrested after Coquitlam double homicide

The victims are a 56-year-old Coquitlam woman and an Israeli man who arrived in Canada on July 14, just two days before the homicide.

Saheli is charged with two counts of first degree murder. RCMP say he had a previous relationship with the Coquitlam victim.

Sgt Stephanie Ashton, media relations officer for IHIT, said what was key to the investigation was the location and arrest of the suspect.

“This took coordination of efforts in three Police investigating the scene on July 16 after two people were jurisdictions and the outcome has been found dead in Coquitlam hom successful.”

Supt. mond, is alleged to have had a previ- Sean Maloney, officer in charge of Coous relationship with the female victim. quitlam RCMP, said the “swift apprehenThe body of a woman and a man were sion of Mr. Saheli” a week after the bodies found July 16 in a home in the West- were found, should give residents a sense of wood Plateau area of Coquitlam. safety and security in the neighbourhood.

It took several hours for the Integrat- “There is a long way to go in this file and our peoed Homicide Investigation Team inves- ple will continue to work with IHIT to move the tigators to positively identify the victims investigation forward,” he said in a statement. is expected to appear in in the incident and then several days to Saheli court on Thursday July 23, 2015 ensure their families had been notified. ne man is in custody after a double homicide in Coquitlam last week.

Maurio “Mo” Sahelie, 54, of Rich-

South Surrey police shooting:

20 years old Hudson Brooks was not suicidal, says family

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riends and family ing to a call about a suicidal man of the young man in significant distress, according from Surrey who to the IIO. But Hudson’s family was shot dead by police doesn’t believe that was the case. last weekend haven’t “He has been misrepresented,” been able to find out said Beaudry Brooks, Hudson’s much about why Hudbrother. “I’ve seen the word son Brooks was killed. Grieving mom Jennifer Brooks (right) suicidal thrown around. That is The Independent In- speaks to media about the shooting not right. It’s not what he was that killed her son. vestigations Office has and anyone who knows him, his only said the 20-year-old was shot and killed family and his friends, it’s hurtful to see that.” early Saturday morning near the South SurIn a statement released earlier this week, the rey RCMP detachment during some kind of IIO said, “Other than police issued equipment, altercation with an RCMP officer. The female nothing of significance was recovered from officer — who also suffered a gunshot wound the scene.” When asked whether that means to the leg during the incident — was respondBrooks was unarmed,

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Groom thrown from horse during wedding procession in Surrey

Sikh groom’s wedding plans doing so I can’t fix it.” A groom is atwent off track last weekend after tempting to get help moments before he the horse he was on apparently is thrown off a horse during a wedding became spooked and threw the man off procession in Surrey. Meantime, other its back outside a Surrey temple Saturday. horse trainers are criticizing the inciIn a video posted to Youtube, the dent, calling it “completely preventable.” horse seems to be uncomfortable “I was mortified,” said Jennifer Githe moment the groom climbs on, rard of Barat Wedding Horses. circling around its handler sever- “It didn’t have to happen, it was preal times with the man on its back. ventable.” Girard said since the video The crowd is heard saying “con- was posted over the weekend, at least trol it — everybody be quiet.” one client has called to cancel a horse When the handler — Zsa Zsa Stiasny of for an Indian wedding next month over Equutrails — tries to ensure the groom fears a similar incident could occur. is secure, the horse suddenly bolts away, throwing the groom onto the grass within seconds.

Screams are heard from the crowd as they watch the groom being tossed off the horse.

As a group of family and friends rush to see if the groom is injured, Stiasny is heard on video saying “Oh my god. Something fell on her [the horse].”

The groom — who lost Sikh groom is seen on a horse before his wedding in Surrey, moments before he is thrown his turban in the accident — is seen standing after the incident. He was not seri- It’s a cultural tradition for some Sikh and ously injured. The CBC has not yet Hindu families to have the groom ride a been able to reach him for comment. white horse before the wedding ceremony.

Stiasny — who told CBC News her ​Harwant Brar who also rents out horses horse Misty has performed at sev- for Indian weddings, said he was sureral Indian weddings without inci- prised by many things he saw in the video. dent — said she believes the groom “I thought it was peculiar the groom was may have caused the horse’s reaction. mounting on the right side — the horses “When the groom was mounting up aren’t used to mounting on the right side.”

I had asked him to remove his sword A Sikh groom is seen on a horse before and shoes before mounting, which I his wedding in Surrey B.C., moments don’t believe he did. And the shoe was before he is thrown from the animal. sticking inside the horse’s side,” she said. Brar said the horse was also in an “Either his shoe or his sword was stick- environment with too many variing into her. Unfortunately I’m on the ables and the handler should have opposite side so I can’t see what he’s found a way to calm it down.

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‘Mela Melna Da by Udaari was held at Taj Park Centre (old Bear Creek Banquet hall in Surrey on July 18. Photo by Chandra Bodalia.

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CRTC says big telecoms must share high-speed networks with competitors

anada’s big telecom companies will be required to open their highest-speed internet cables to smaller competitors who want to offer broadband services to consumers, according to a CRTC ruling released.

That means that big telecom and cable providers, who are already required to share their copper and coaxial cables with smaller competitors such as Primus, Distributel or TekSavvy, will now have to do the same with their fibre optic cables.

The smaller competitor companies currently own about 10 per cent of the Canadian home internet market, with the other 90 per cent controlled by big phone and cable companies.

The CRTC decision is a major loss for big companies like Bell, which argue that it would have no incentive to invest in laying new fibre optic cables if forced to allow rival companies to profit from them.

But the ruling also contains some solace for the big providers. The CRTC said it will allow the big telecoms to charge fees for sharing their cables in order to make a profit on their investments. The pricing model will be worked out with each company on the basis of actual cost, plus a markup of about 30 per cent.

There are also some other changes in the new regime, designed to push the smaller competitors to invest in their own infrastructure, rather than just piggy-backing on the infrastructure already installed by the big companies.

As things stand, the smaller competitors use what is called the “aggregated” model of service. They tap into a single point of access, of which there is one per

province, and all traffic from that node to the homes and businesses of the final internet consumer travels along cables that belong to the big companies.

Because there is only one interface per province, the distances can be long, and the smaller competitors are required to pay for the transport of their data at rates that increase with distance travelled.

Under the new rules, any smaller company that wants access to the highspeed fibre optic cables must agree to a “disaggregated” model of service, where they are required to plug in much closer to the final consumer, at a regional point of access. There are dozens of these regional interfaces in Ontario and Quebec. The smaller companies would then have to arrange transport of the signal from that regional interface to their own offices, either by installing their own fibre optic cable, or by leasing it from an existing company.

The CRTC said this is designed to discourage smaller competitors from acting as mere resellers of existing bandwidth, rather than contributing to expand the total amount of bandwidth available.

Many smaller competitors say they would prefer to move to a disaggregated model, because they are currently forced to pay heavy transport fees to move their data long distances to a single provincial point of access before it crosses over to their own networks. Under the disaggregated model, they can reduce those

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Deepak Binning Foundation’s annual charity golf tournament

The Deepak Binning Foundation held its annual charity golf tournament in Surrey on July 17.

Photo by Chandra Bodalia.

22 years old man believed to be latest homicide victim

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of Toronto, although body not found yet

Toronto homicide detective says po- Police haven’t been able to lolice believe a 22-year-old man was cate the concrete slab, and are askslain in a townhouse and his body ing for the public’s help in looking for it. taken to a rural area 200 kilometres from the Forensics officers, meanwhile, spent more city and encased in concrete. Det. Dave Dick- than 24 hours searching the Wainfleet home. inson said Shawn Kapadia, of Mississauga, Dickinson said there have been no arrests in was likely killed on July 5 at Unit the case so far, though he said 118 of a townhouse complex at the case is progressing quickly.

7 Foundry Ave., near Davenport “I do anticipate them Road and Landsdowne Avenue. in the future,” he said.

Dickinson said investigators beKapadia was reported missing lieve Kapadia’s body was then to Peel Regional Police by his moved from Toronto to a home on parents on July 10. Five days O’Reilly’s Road South in Wainfleet, later, police put out a news reOntario, about a two-hour drive lease about his disappearance. from the city.

Shawn Kapadia, On the morning of Sunday, July Shawn Kapadia, 22 22, of Mississauga, was reported 12, Toronto police were called missing to Peel Regional Police since July 10. to the Foundry Avenue townhouse complex An older model John Deere backhoe was regarding a trespasser, which set the investigaseen at the Wainfleet home and later ob- tion into Kapadia’s disappearance in motion. served leaving with a large chunk of concrete Police found blood inside the townin its front bucket. Police said the backhoe house, as well as a footprint beside the was last seen driving on Broadway Avenue door, evidence that’s still visible today. in Welland, Ont., on the afternoon of July 12. Dickinson said Kapadia is known to police, “It is likely that this backhoe was borrowed though wouldn’t elaborate on the man’s backor taken without consent,” Dickinson said. ground. He said Kapadia had an association with the Foundry Avenue address.

Police launched an investigation at that location, but released few details about what they were looking for at the time, leaving many neighbours concerned.

South Asian youth shot dead in targeted attack

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n a possible “targeted attack”, a 20-year-old Indian-Canadian has been shot dead inside a car in Calgary, media reports said.

Steven Sharda (pictured) was discovered with fatal gunshots in a car on July 11 beside another man with critical injuries.

Both were rushed to a nearby hospital where Sharda was declared brought dead while another man remained critical.

“We believe it was a t argete d attack, the people responsible knew the victims,” staff sergeant Doug Andrus was quoted as saying by Calgary Sun. Sharda is the city’s 13th homicide victim of the year, the report said.

Though the incident came to light on July 11, Sharda’s identification was established on July 14 by the police.

Witnesses from the scene have been interviewed and police are also reviewing surveillance cameras footage in hopes of identifying suspects in an attack that was not random, Andrus said, adding that the second victim is expected to live but has not been able to speak with investigators.

“His medical condition precludes officers from conducting interviews at this time.

He’s been stabilised,” he said.

Police are also trying to determine if the shootings are linked to recent violent incidents in the city’s northeast, said Andrus.

LOCAL B.C. judge and defence for accused Chinese spy uneasy about hiring U.S. translators to help RCMP

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North Van couple die after apparently using street drug laced with toxic fentanyl

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orth Vancouver landlord Meltritish Columbia judge is concerned translators would be required to sign a em Bahcheli describes them that assistance from the United non-disclosure form that would guaranas a wonderful couple and reStates in extraditing an accused Chi- tee repercussions if they failed to follow sponsible parents of a two-year-old boy. nese spy has more to do with inadequate the rules. DelBigio said if the court rules Bahcheli said Wednesday she was shocked RCMP resources than Canain favour of the application, to find out tenants Amelia and Hardy Leighda’s international obligations. he’d like to see the RCMP sign ton died over the weekend, likely by inhaling B.C. Supreme Court Jusa contract making them liable a street drug with a substance that appears to tice Terence Schultes said for any possible breach of inhave been laced with something toxic — possion Tuesday he wouldn’t acformation by the U.S. agents. bly the highly potent synthetic opioid fentanyl. cept that the Mounties don’t “This is, I submit, a perfectly According to Bahcheli, the couple, who lived have the ability to translate reasonable, lawful and approin the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouthe equivalent of more than priate balancing of interests,” he ver, were well liked in their eight-unit apart300,000 pages of seized insaid. “It would offer my client ment building and appeared to be clean-livformation from Canadian Su Bin was arrested some protection.” A Los Angeles ing, healthy, working adults in their early 30s. permanent resident Su Bin. grand jury indicted Su last Auin Richmond last “They were very nice people, warm, invitThe U.S. wants to extragust on five offences, including ing, hospitable,” she said. “There was nothing summer for dite Su to face trial over conspiracy to steal trade secrets, to me indicating that they were using street accusations he masterminded a plot to conspiracy to export defence informa- drugs at all. Honestly, I did not get the imsteal military trade secrets from sev- tion and unauthorized computer access. pression at all that they were drug users.” eral American defence contractors.

The Canadian government is attemptAccording to North Vancouver RCMP The Canadian government has asked ing to revoke Su’s permanent-residency Cpl. Richard De Jong, the tragic deaths may the court to OK a team of U.S. investiga- status but he is appealing the decision. be part of an overall trend that is deeply contors to help the RCMP extract and transcerning to police throughout the Metro Vanlate reams of data found on Su’s seized electronics, written predominantly in Chinese characters.

That information would then be used by the courts to decide whether to extradite him.

The RCMP’s inability to investigate the matter on its own suggests it has a resource-allocation issue, said Schultes. He said the proposed assistance could be interpreted as “administrative convenience.” “I presume they either don’t want to spend the money or whoever’s in charge here can’t authorize to spend the money,” More than 60 lawyers and staff are available to the judge said. “That’s really the you. We cover all litigation expenses and if there elephant in the room for me.” is no recovery, there are no fees to you. Legal Stacey Repas, counsel for the services also available in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu. federal attorney general, told the court Canada has an interAweI.sI.bI.sI. Aqy prsnl ieMjrI klym national obligation to co-operate with its neighbour on issues swfw 40 qoN v`D vkIlW dw stwP quhwfI syvw ivc hY[ of national security. It would muk`dmw nw ij~qx qy koeI PIs nhI leI jwvygI[ take the one Canadian MountAsIN pMjwbI, ihMdI Aqy aurdU ivc g~l krdy hW ie available working full time more than 35 years to translate the documents, and outside help We handle accident issues related to: is the only immediate option to expedite processing the U.S.’s Brain and spinal cord injuries extradition application, he said.

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“I say that Canadian law has not yet reached the point where we outsource criminal investigations simply because of inadequate resources,” said DelBigio.

He also said American translators may not comply with Canadian requirements that they not submit any information to the U.S. before a Canadian court order permits them to do so.

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De Jong said RCMP are awaiting a report by the B.C. Coroners Service on the cause of death. But he noted they have been warning people who may only dabble in street drugs occasionally that the illicit substance could be laced with fentanyl. “Right now we are concerned about the public’s safety, if it is fentanyl,” De Jong said. “We are really concerned about the safety of anyone using these street drugs.” Fentanyl, which is cheap and put into the drug to give it more potency, “is quick-acting and causes almost immediate death,” De Jong said. In Surrey earlier this month, eight people overdosed on drugs in a 24-hour period. All luckily survived, and RCMP have yet to say if there is a link to the deaths in North Vancouver and the overdoses in Surrey. Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, the Vancouver Coastal Health medical health officer for North Vancouver, said they have been issuing warnings for months on the risk posed by fentanyl to people using street drugs. “We have tried to get the message out that fentanyl is in the street drugs, ” Lysyshyn said.

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Premier Clark blames climate change for BC fires

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remier Christy Clark says wildfire seasons like the one the province is currently experiencing will become more and more common because of climate change. “Climate change has altered the terrain. It’s made us much more vulnerable to fire,” said Clark. “We have to be planning with the knowledge that this isn’t going to be an unusual year.”

The premier made the remarks at the site of the Westside Road fire near West Kelowna after flying over the area to view the damage. She predicted the province will need more resources in coming years.

She said so far this year the province has spent $163 million fighting the fires and could spend as much as $400 million.

“You never want to have to spend more money than you need to, but we’re going to spend as much as needed to control these fires,” said Clark.

The province has only budgeted $63 million for wildfires, which Clark said is based on a five- to six-year average.

The premier said because of the province’s $1.7-billion surplus this year, the expense should not put it into deficit.

Tougher penalties Clark said the province is considering enacting harsher penalties for those who start wildfires. Currently in B.C., almost 40 per cent of fires in the

past 10 years have been caused by people.

“We’ve got to start thinking about stiffer penalties for people,” said Clark. “People need to be thinking hard about their behaviour and the impact it can have.”

Some options may include impounding the cars of those who have flicked cigarettes out their windows. Clark

Vancouver Mayor Robertson and other mayors meet Pope Francis to talk about climate change

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ancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson joined dozens of other mayors from around the world at the Vatican Tuesday to meet with Pope Francis and discuss the role cities can play in addressing climate change, sustainability, and poverty.

Robertson was the only Canadian representative in the delegation of municipal leaders. In an interview with CBC News Tuesday, Robertson was critical of Canada’s environmental track record.

“It’s certainly a big concern for mayors globally when the Canadian government is such a laggard, and is fighting against the tide of commitments to fighting climate change,” Robertson said.

“It’s really a tipping point about climate change and it impacts on the most vulnerable people glob-

Gregor Robertson was among dozens of mayors from around the world to gather at the Vatican for a two-day conference on the environment. ally.” Urged bold steps The municipal leaders urged their national leaders take bold steps at the Paris climate talks later this year, saying that may be the last chance to keep the warming of the Earth at levels safe for humanity. Robertson and other delegates were invited because they back the Pope’s environmental message.

Francis last month released an environmental encyclical that denounced what he calls a fossil fuel-based world economy that exploits the poor and destroys the Earth.

Experts have long said that cities are key to reducing global warming since urban areas account for nearly three-quarters of human emissions. In a written statement, Robertson’s office said the meeting was the most significant mayoral gathering ever held at the Vatican.

Robertson is a panellist at the conference, where he is speaking about the importance of sustainable economic development in cities and highlighting Vancouver’s leadership in supporting green and low-carbon technology, the statement said.

Other mayors attending hail from Boston, Oslo, Norway, San Francisco and Boulder, Colo. In addition to the climate declaration, mayors will be asked to sign a statement against human trafficking that was first penned by religious leaders at the Vatican last year.

Fraser Health executives paid $2.3 million in 2014

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op executives at Fraser Health collected a total of nearly $2.3 million in pay, benefits and other compensation last year.

Former president and CEO Dr. Nigel Murray was paid $153,000 for serving just over half the year until he resigned effective last July 10. That included $100,575 in salary, about $16,000 in benefits and pension, and nearly $35,000 in unused vacation payout, according to the health authority’s financial disclosures.

Murray was not paid a severance because he resigned voluntarily to return to New Zealand as the province was set to unveil significant reforms at the health authority.

Dr. David Ostrow took over from Murray as interim CEO for the second half of the year, drawing total compensation of $140,000.

A new permanent CEO – Michael Marchbank – took over in early January this year at an annual salary of $345,000.

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Winners of the annual scholarships awards by Khalsa Credit Union are pictured above with organizers at an event on July 19 in Surrey.

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Fraser Health executives paid $2.3 million in 2014 From previous page The highest paid executive last year was Dr. Andrew Webb, vice-president of medicine, who was paid a $271,440 salary and combined compensation of $321,000.

Vice-president of infomatics Philip Barker and vice-president of operations and strategic planning Marc Pelletier both received combined compensation of about $293,000.

Dr. Paul van Buynder, the vice-president of population health and chief medical health officer, resigned to return to his native Australia last October, receiving just over $167,000 for the truncated year.

He was replaced by Dr. Victoria Lee, who had previously served as an executive medical director, and collected total compensation of $280,700 last year.

Other Fraser Health executives on the authority’s disclosure of highest paid positions included Peter Goldthorpe, the vice-president of corporate services and facilities, who received total compensation of $280,000, and Dr. Roy Morton, the interim vice-president of medicine and regional programs, who received $265,500.

The $2.3 million in combined compensation of the executive positions disclosed

by Fraser are about 0.07 per cent of the health authority’s $3.1-billion budget.

University pay disclosures Post-secondary institutions in the region also released their executive pay disclosures this month.

Simon Fraser University president and vice-chancellor Andrew Petter received total compensation of $440,000. Amounts in addition to his base salary of $328,870 include pension, benefits, a $7,175 vehicle allowance and an on-campus presidential residence valued at $26,510 per year.

SFU paid Petter and five vice-presidents received a total of nearly $1.7 million last year.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s highest paid executive president Alan Davis, with total compensation of nearly $233,000. Davis and five other highest paid executives received a combined $1.1 million in 2014.

The University of the Fraser Valley paid its president, Mark Evered, just under $230,000. He and five vice-presidents whose pay was disclosed were paid a combined $1.2 million.r

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Chopping Transit Police seen as an option to save money

ome Metro Vancouver mayors are willing to cut or eliminate the Transit Police service to redirect money to expand core bus service.

But others say chopping cops is a bad strategy to deal with TransLink’s cash crunch after voters defeated a 0.5 per cent sales tax for transit expansion.

“It’s worth looking at,” White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin said. “It is expensive. And quite frankly, I haven’t seen much benefit from it.”

Baldwin said what he has noticed is a precipitous drop in community shuttle service in White Rock, from 30-minute frequency to every hour.

He suggested the system could get by with attendants to conduct fare checks and assist passengers rather than much more costly armed police officers.

The Transit Police last year cost $34 million, $2.2 million higher than expected because a new collective agreement

gave officers retroactive pay hikes to 2011.

That amount of money could fund a significant jump in regular bus service.

For comparison, it would have taken $59 million a year under the mayors’ plan to deliver the proposed 25 per cent lift in overall bus service, or $28 million per year to add the 11 new B-Line express bus routes that were proposed.

But any cut to Transit Police would also mean fewer police boots on the ground and more pressure on local detachments at a time when Surrey, in particular, is desperate to add more officers.

Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner, vice-chair of the mayors’ council, said a couple of mayors have raised the idea of cutting the Transit Police but stressed it’s not one she is advocating. “I have no idea what that would do to the system,” she said.

The force has 167 sworn officers and another 67 civilian staff.

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Calgary family relocated by the city after alleged racial bullying in public housing complex

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ublic-housing officials have relo- that the district manager assembled two cated a Caucasian family after they meetings with residents and a Calgary powent public with allegations of ra- lice liaison. They floated possible solutions, cially charged bullying by their neighbours. such as parents sharing supervision shifts Internal documents suggest the or setting up extracurricular activities.

“There were definitely some issues and stone-throwing and harassment by chilincidents that arose this spring and that dren running rampant had escalated went into this summer,” said Hamm. “They at the Shaganappi Village complex afwere in the context of kids being kids. ter the family aired their complaints.

Were they inappropriate in behaviour?

Blair France moved into the Calgary Absolutely.

Were they unacceptable?

Yes.” Housing Company complex with her husband and two children last November.

In April, she claimed her children were subject to racial taunts and punches from children who come from East African immigrant families, who form a significant presence among the complex’s roughly 900 residents.

When France had rocks thrown at her house in May, she wrote Blair France, centre, with her daughters, Deborahand Elexaray, says that her family has been bullied by neighbours. to the mayor and local media, and hosted an anti-bullying In a June 3 public Facebook post, barbecue. The event made news nation- France said the agency agreed to relowide. Their story was picked up by a Brit- cate her family to a southeast property.

France, who did not respond to Herald ish tabloid and was even circulated by the interview requests, claimed CHC conwhite supremacist website Stormfront. tacted the alleged bullies she had named While the barbecue went peacefuland told them that “if they don’t comly, documents obtained under a freeply to the rules they will be kicked out.” dom-of-information request show She said things worsened two days latthat the problems quickly worsened. er, when neighbouring kids threatened to “Personally I believe this bullying is getkill her children.

“They are so scared, they ting out-of-hand in the complex,” an area don’t want to go to school or even outside,” supervisor reported just two days after wrote France.

“We just need to move.” the barbecue, noting that “the kids are She moved the next day.

Because of doing the same thing” to another tenant. privacy restrictions, Calgary Housing Crystal Schick/Calgary HeraldDebcan’t confirm exactly why they facilitatorah France, 12, says that she has been ed France’s move.

“All of the people inbullied by neighbours since moving to an volved were making efforts to resolve the affordable housing complex near Westbook Mall in Calgary, on May 23, 2015. situation, but it wasn’t improving. So with Larry Hamm, operations manager for the the approval of the people involved, we Calgary Housing Company, which runs the took the right steps to resolve the situacity-owned property, said in an interview tion,” said spokesman Darren Nimegeers.

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Man fired after racist rant to cab driver caught on video

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algary man who was reportedly responsible for a racist tirade against a cab driver after leaving a company party is out of a job. The video footage from a Calgary cab shows a front-seat passenger unleashing racial slurs against driver Sardar Qayyum (pictured).

Media identified the A still image by video from the cab shows a front-seat passenger as Chad passenger unleashing racial slurs against cab driver Pasloski, an employee at Alcro Electric who had like to acknowledge the taken the cab after leaving a public’s concern. We do company party and paid for not condone such bethe ride with a company chit. haviour and we believe Voytek Lukasiewicz, the busiin accountability. All ness’ president, declined an people need to be treated interview request but pointwith respect and dignied to a statement published ty. This incident is not a on Alcro Electric’s website representation of Alcro Thursday morning, which deElectric. Effective imnounces the racist remarks. Almost two years later the mediately the employee The statement reads, in full: attack has left cab driver involved is no longer “At Alcro Electric we would Sardar Qayyum in shock with Alcro Electric.”

Ottawa pledges $1.53 billion for Green Line transit in Calgary

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he federal government will contribute $1.53 billion towards the cost of Calgary’s planned Green Line public transit project.

Calgary Southeast MP Jason Kenney, who made the announcement Friday morning, called it the biggest single federal investment ever made in Calgary.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi called it a historic day.

He says the money means the project

can be built as an LRT line immediately, skipping the planned intermediate step of making the Green Line a bus rapid-transit system.

Construction will get underway in 2017 and be finished by 2024, Nenshi said.

The Green Line will run from Calgary’s northern outskirts, down Centre Street, through downtown and into the deep southeast past the South Health Campus.

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Canada’s housing market 20% overvalued and set for soft landing, Fitch says

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rate cut from the Bank of Canada signals the economy is weak but credit agency Fitch Ratings still expects a soft landing for the housing sector.

The New York-based agency doesn’t think the decision by the central bank to reduce its overnight lending rate by 25 basis points will have much of an impact on borrowing. Some of country’s major banks have already lowered their prime lending rate following the decision Wednesday.

“Given the current rate environment, which has been at near-record lows for several years, Fitch does not expect the rate cut to have much impact on market mortgage rates, or on affordability for current borrowers,” the company said in a release.

Toronto-Dominion Bank was the first to cut its prime lending rate, slicing off 10 basis points to 2.75 per cent.Later Wednesday, Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal followed, shaving their prime lending rates by 15 basis points to

2.70 per cent and TD Bank also matched.

Bank of Nova Scotia and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce followed with their own cuts late Wednesday, shaving off 15 basis points to their prime lending rates.

Fitch says it believes the Canadian housing market is still 20 per cent overvalued, with what it described as “modest variation” across provinces. “However, a number of positive market factors are expected to moderate any negative price pressure.

Most importantly, the Canadian mortgage market does not have significant exposure to riskier mortgage products that would be at high risk of default,” said Fitch.

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Vancouver’s housing market shows no sign of easing as prices and sales hit fresh records

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anada’s most expensive housing market got even pricier in June as sales set an all-time record for the month, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says.. The board said it was second best month ever in its history as the average sale price of detached home in the region topped $1.442 million in June. There were 4,375 sales through the multiple listing service in June , 2015, a 28.4 per cent increase from the 3,406 sales sales a year ago and a 7.9 per cent jump from just a month earlier. June sales were 29.1 per cent above the 10-year sales average for the month. June was the fourth straight month sales topped 4,000 sales and barely missed the all-time record for any month which was 4,434, recorded in May 2005. “Demand in our detached home market continues to drive activity across Metro

Vancouver,” said Darcy McLeod, president of the board, in a statement. “There were more detached home sales in the region last month than we’ve seen during the month of June in more than 10 years.” The board said its MLS Home Price Index composite benchmark price for all residential properties in Metro Vancouver was $694,000 last month, a 10.3 per cent increase from a year ago. “Housing market activity comes in cycles; we’re in an up cycle right now that looks similar to the mid-2000s,” McLeod said. “It would be easy to point to one factor that’s causing this cycle, but the truth is that it’s a number of different factors. Conditions today are being driven by low interest rates, a declining supply of detached homes, a growing population, a provincial economy that’s outperforming the rest of Canada, pent-up demand from previous years and, perhaps most importantly, the fact that we live in a highly desirable region.” New listings did increase 8.7 per in June from a year ago, adding much needed supply to region

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Canada’s housing market 20% overvalued and set for soft landing, Fitch says From page 1 ing prices volatile. Fitch noted that in Quebec, where gross domestic product growth is trailing the nation overall, prices have been flat or heading downward.

In the red-hot Toronto and Vancouver markets where single detached homes now easily fetch more than $1 million, Fitch said prices are less likely to fall because they are supported by strong economic and population growth.

“Expect a soft landing nationally, where

the price growth that has characterized the country’s housing markets for more than a decade will abate, with modest declines to follow,” the company said, adding it expects “modest price declines in the medium term across the country, significant downturns remain unlikely. But, downside risks exist, particularly in markets that have been dependent on robust construction and real estate activity in recent years.”

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2 cans (14-ounce/400 mL each) of premium coconut milk 1 heaping tablespoon (20 mL) of Thai curry paste the tender stems of 1 bunch of cilantro, rinsed well2 chicken breasts, thinly sliced, 2 cups (500 mL0 of chicken broth, 1 carrot, shredded, 4 or 5 lime leaves, 2 stalks of lemon grass, halved lengthwise, woody leaves removed2 tablespoons (30 mL) of fish sauce the zest and juice of 2 limes a small knob frozen ginger, a handful bean sproutsa 8 ounce (225 g) package rice noodles 1 bunch of cilantro leaves, rinsed well 2 or 3 green onions, thinly sliced a sprinkle or two salt or soy sauce Methord: Scoop coconut cream from the top of just one of the cans into a large stockpot set over a medium-high heat. Melt the cream, add the curry paste and stir for a few minutes until they begin to sizzle.

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ord is that Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh and actress Hazel Keech are the newest couple on the block. It seems Yuvraj has a thing for actresses. Remember his affair with Kim Sharma? If rumours are to be believed, Yuvraj has found love in Bollywood again. This time, it’s British actress Hazel Keech, who famously portrayed Kareena Kapoor’s friend in the movie ‘Bodyguard’ and even did the item number ‘Aa ante amlapuram’ for the film ‘Maximum’.

She was also seen in reality show ‘Bigg Boss’ hosted by Salman Khan. Prague holiday for Ranbir, Katrina Katrina Kaif rang in her 32nd birthday

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Yuvraj Singh, Hazel Keech dating? on July 16 and rumour mills were abuzz that Ranbir Kapoor finally went down on his knees. Speculations are rife that Ranbir and Katrina have gotten engaged on July 16, over Kaif ’s birthday celebrations in Alibaug.

While some reports suggested that Ranbir and Katrina flew to London to continue their celebration others mentioned New York City.

However, the couple is in the picturesque city of Prague. They were spotted on the Munich to Prague flight. Ranbir was also gracious enough to click a selfie with co-passenger. Aishwarya all set to walk the ramp again

Known for her beauty and style the enigmatic Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai will once again be seen from where she began. Aishwarya will be walking the ramp once again for Manish Malhotra at the Indian Couture week. The last time she was seen on the ramp donning a Manish Malhotra outfit five years ago on the same platform. Yet again she will set on the stage she left from. What scares Salman Khan? The ‘Dabangg Khan’ of Bollywood, Salman Khan has his share of fears. In an interview with Mid-day.com, the actor has been quoted as saying that his big-

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gest fear is the uncertainty of what life has to offer.He further said that one has no control over most things and is helpless. Talking about his other fear, the ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ star said that it was dying an ungraceful death. Salman reasoned that one should die for a cause or something which creates a big difference. He even said that death should be larger than life and glorious. Ranveer, Deepika’s London celebration Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone during the promotion of ‘Ram Leela’. (Sanskriti Media and Entertainment) According to the latest buzz, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone have flown to London to celebrate Ranveer’s birthday. The actor turned 30 on July 6.

Shah Rukh Khan romances Kajol: ‘Dilwale’ update!

Shahrukh Khan’s spot boy Subhash Jain passes away

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ubhash had been with Shah Rukh Khan for nearly two decades.

Whenever stars, media, friends or family visiting Shah Rukh Khan were always greeted first by Subhash, who then got you an audience with his master. Whether it was getting the visitor a chair or a glass of water, Subhash moved with ligtening speed, making everyone feel comfortable.

Subhash had taken ill for quite

a few months now. When the doctors said his illness was terminal, Shahrukh Khan and his wif Gauri tried to do everything they could to save him. Shahrukh Khan is in Bulgaria now and days and wasn’t around for the funeral, one hears that he was devastated when he heard of Subhash’s death.

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CBC must find new funding sources, Senate report says

Senate committee is calling on Canada’s public broadcaster to publicly disclose how much employees make and ensure non-executives aren’t getting paid more than their peers in private broadcasting.

The Senate’s communications committee is also calling on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to find new ways to fund its operations in order to limit the amount of funding it receives from the federal government.

The committee rejected the idea of stable, multi-year funding for the Crown corporation, saying funding is based on “the fiscal demands of the federal government.”

Senators raised the possibility of using the PBS funding model — where viewers donate money or pay for sponsorships of programs — or charging a license fee to every home in the country with a television, which is how the BBC receives some of its funds.

“Even though it’s more subtle, this is proposing to cut CBC’s budget,” said Ian Morrison of the advocacy group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.

The Senate committee also called on the CBC to cut production of all non-news and current events programs that private companies develop. In its place, the committee recommended the CBC create a “superfund” that would dole out cash to private producers, as opposed to the CBC spending the money on in-house productions.

Such a move, Morrison argued, would render CBC nothing more than “a transmitter of programs that are conceived and thought up by private interests.”

The committee says it’s time to update the Broadcasting Act, noting the legislation hasn’t been updated since the “pre-smartphone, pre-multi-platform” era of 1991.

Shivaparsad Mallaya from Mumbai (middle) and some local artistes joined up to perform in a tribute to legends of Indian singers in Burnaby on July 17.

Photo by Chandra Bodalia.

MP Sandhu slams Conservatives for misleading Surrey residents on promised RCMP

Jasbir Sandhu, MP for Surrey North, condemned the Conservative government for failing to fulfill their promise to staff 100 more RCMP officers in Surrey and for misleading residents on the number of officers that have actually been deployed.

On June 11, 2015, Federal Public Safety Minister, Steven Blaney, announced that 20 out of the 100 promised RCMP officers were already on the ground. Today, he contradicted his previous statement noting that actually only 6 new officers have been deployed to Surrey.

“These new officers were requested by the city to help combat the escalating crime problem in Surrey. However, it turns out that only 6 of the 100 promised officers

are actually on the ground,” explained Sandhu.

The city of Surrey has witnessed a recent wave of gang related shootings and crime continues to be a major concern across the city. “Every week brings more shootings. We are worried for our safety and the safety of our children, meanwhile, the Conservatives are too busy playing politics to answer to our concerns,” said Sandhu. “We have been waiting for these additional officers for way too long. Conservatives are failing on their pledge to be tough on crime. The Minister needs to respond to our requests and finally provide a clear timeline for when the remaining 94 RCMP officers will be deployed

to our community,” demanded Sandhu.

Red tape plays a role in Vancouver housing price inflation Why Vancouver housing is so unaffordable

By Kenneth P. Green Ian Herzog and Josef Filipowicz The Fraser Institute

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s rising housing costs in Metro Vancouver continue to make headlines, municipal policy-makers, including Vancouver’s mayor, point to a number of potential causes, including absentee owners and home-flippers-people who buy and promptly resell property for short-term returns. In a recent letter to B.C.’s premier, the mayor also called on the provincial and federal governments to help fund housing investments, and allow municipalities to track property ownership and vacancy more closely.

It is difficult to say if any of these proposed policies can control housing costs, which rely on multiple factors. However, Metro Vancouver faces unavoidable physical limits to growth and the regulatory burden cities place on new housing development can exacerbate the problem.

City planners play a critical role in our growing urban landscape, preventing nuisance and ensuring that growth is supported by appropriate infrastructure. But a recent study by the Fraser Institute finds stark differences in the hurdles developers across the Lower Mainland must overcome to build new homes. Before turning to potentially costly interventions into local housing markets, municipal policy-makers should look in their own back yards for simpler solutions to rising costs.

If it takes too long to get city hall’s approval for housing developments, the supply of new homes will lag behind demand.

This can make new housing scarce, and drive up prices across the region by creating a perpetual seller’s market. The study’s estimates that typical approval timelines range from five months in Pitt Meadows and 8.5 months in New Westminster to 16.1 months in the District of North Vancouver and 17.7 months in West Vancouver.

Moreover, prohibitive compliance costs, such as development charges and legal fees, are another factor that can make the economics of more affordable housing options turn sour, adding at least $14,357 per new home built in Abbotsford and a maximum of $40,000 per home in the District of North Vancouver.

Responsibly set fees, reflecting new in-

frastructure costs, can lift the fiscal burden of new development from the existing property tax base, making it easier to accommodate-especially at the urban fringe where new roads and sewers are often necessary. Subsequently, one would expect cities with the densest growth to feature the lowest fees. However, a closer look at fees and compliance costs across Canada finds no evidence of this trend. Instead, the data suggest that intensifying cities-those building up instead of out-often have regulatory frameworks that are more costly to navigate.

Burnaby is a rare exception, growing compactly while maintaining low compliance costs relative to neighbouring Vancouver.

Persistent rezoning in a city raises questions about the plans and bylaws it has in place, and can add to administrative burdens. Survey evidence suggests that zoning bylaws need to be amended to accommodate more than 80 per cent of new residential development in eight of 19 Lower Mainland cities. Estimates of rezoning’s effect on approval timelines range from 2.8 additional months in Port Coquitlam to 13 additional months in the District of North Vancouver.

Council and community groups are often a force for good, but they can undervalue the needs of newcomers as Canadians continue to converge on urban centres. A survey of industry professionals revealed that opposition to residential development from council and community groups tends to be strongest in cities where dwelling values are highest (the North Shore, Vancouver) and less of a deterrent to building in places like Surrey, where people have amassed less equity in their homes. While one should be careful attributing a specific causal story to this correlation, it is unsettling to find that voices against new housing are amplified where it is most valuable. Cities such as Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver, where survey evidence suggests red tape is the thickest, can turn to their neighbours in Abbotsford and Burnaby for examples of effective land-use regulations, which impose less of a burden on building. Smoothing out the kinks in the process that gets new homes built can pay dividends to anyone looking for a new home in the Lower Mainland.

Kenneth Green is Sr. Director, Natural Resource Studies, Ian Herzog an economist and Josef Filipowicz a researcher at the Fraser Institute.

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Long-term Canadian expats can’t vote in federal elections, Appeal Court rules

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llowing Canadians who have lived the infringement is reasonable and can be abroad for more than five years justified in a free and democratic society. to vote in federal elections would Two Canadians living in the United States be unfair to those who live in Canada, On- — Montreal-born Jamie Duong and Torontario’s top court ruled this week. In a split to-born Gillian Frank — launched the constidecision, the Court of Appeal overturned tutional challenge, arguing the five-year rule a ruling that had restored the right of more was arbitrary and unreasonable. Both argued than one million long-term expats to vote. they had only left for educational and employCanada’s “social contract” entails citi- ment opportunities and still had strong atzens submitting to laws because they had a tachments to Canada and a stake in its future. voice in making them through voting, the In May last year, Superior Court Justice ruling states. “Permitting all non-resident Michael Penny threw out the voting ban, citizens to vote would allow them to partic- noting that mass murderers have the right ipate in making laws that affect Canadian to cast ballots but long-term expats who care deeply about the residents on a daily basis but “This caused country do not. Penny have little to no practical conthe debate to be sequence for their own daily also said expats could cast as whether lives,” Justice George Strathy well be subject to Canon-reswrote for the majority court. nadian tax and othident citizens were This caused the debate to er laws. The Appeal worthy of the vote,” be cast as whether non-resCourt said Penny’s said Strathy ident citizens were worthy judgment was cloudof the vote. As a result, he overlooked ed by the government’s assertion that expats Canada’s democratic tradition and the “do not have the same connection” to Canaimportance of the social contract be- da as residents. This would erode the social tween Canada’s electorate and Parliament contract and undermine the legitimacy of “This would erode the social contract the laws “This caused the debate to be cast and undermine the legitimacy of the laws.” as whether non-resident citizens were worStrathy said the relevant part of the Can- thy of the vote,” said Strathy. “As a result, he ada Elections Act aimed to strengthen the overlooked Canada’s democratic tradition country’s system of government. While it in- and the importance of the social contract fringed on the rights of the expats, he said, between Canada’s electorate and Parliament.”

NDP did not break any rules over MPs’ mailings about 2013 byelections

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ves Cote finds no rules were broken by flyers sent out around 2013 byelections Yves Cote, the commissioner of Canada Elections, has cleared the NDP in a complaint brought by the Liberals over MPs’ mailings sent out in 2013.

The commissioner of Canada Elections says the NDP broke no rules when several MPs sent taxpayer-funded mailings to households in 2013 during or close to a series of federal byelections that year.

In a letter to NDP national director Anne McGrath, Yves Cote says he’s exonerating the party after investigating several complaints about large-volume mailings from MP offices in four federal ridings: Bourassa in Montreal, Brandon-Souris and Provencher in Manitoba and Toronto Centre.

“I have reached the conclusion that no offence under the Act

was committed with respect to these various mailings,” he wrote.

Cote’s findings are based on documentation provided by the NDP and they vary according to the riding he examined.

He found that in Provencher, all the mailings were sent outside the writ period, and therefore did not fall within the Elections Canada definition of election advertising.

In the case of Bourassa and Toronto Centre, Cote found that some of the mailings went out on Oct. 18, two days before the writs dropped. The party demonstrated that it subsequently and unsuccessfully tried to recall the mailings once they learned the byelections had been officially called. Elections Canada rules state that any mailing that’s in transit when the writ is dropped and which cannot be recalled, will not be deemed an election expense.

Parlimentry Secretary Deepak Obhrai started early campainging in Calgary.

Health care costs for provinces, territories on unsustainable path, PBO says

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new report is warning that the net debt of the country’s provinces, territories and municipalities is on an unsustainable path with health spending set to accelerate along with the aging population.

The parliamentary budget office estimates the net debt of these subnational governments will climb above 200 per cent of the gross domestic product in 75 years unless steps are taken to ease the burden — such as increasing federal health transfers.The federal budget watchdog says by contrast, Ottawa’s books are on a sustainable path and that its net debt is set to be eliminated in 35 years.

The annual report comes out less than a week after Canada’s premiers urged Otta-

wa to boost federal health-care funding so that it covers at least 25 per cent of all health spending by the provinces and territories.

The document says the provinces, territories and cities can get back on a sustainable trajectory by adding a total of $28 billion to their bottom lines this year through options such as higher federal transfers, reduced program spending or increased revenues.

The analysis also found recent policy changes such as the increased universal child care benefit and the expanded limit on tax-free savings accounts will have little impact on the federal government’s bottom line over the long term.

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C JOBS “Balwinder Singhmaar, resident of 15095 92 Ave, Surrey, BC V3R 5V8 has a vacancy for In-home Child caregiver for infant child and 9 years old son. Full Time, 40 hrs/week. Applicant must have high school with minimum of 1 year of related experience within last 3 years or 6 months of full time training in caregiving.

Job Duties includes supervise and care for children, prepare formulas and change diaper of infant, feeding, bathing, dressing, prepare children for rest period, escort child to school, prepare and serve nutritious meal and snacks, accompany to and from activities & appointments, light housekeeping, laundry, maintain safe environment at home, keep record of day-to-day activities, health and progress of children. Optional accommodation is available at no charge but this is not a condition of employment. Please send resume at balwindersinghmaar@gmail.com” ------------------------------Jun13_15 5 Long Haul Truck Drivers Reqd.

Sal:$23.00/hr, 40hr/wk, +1yr exp. & Class A 0r 1 license reqd., FT/ PT Duties: Operate, drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods & materials on local routes or over long distances.Plan trip logistics & obtain required documentation to transport goods.

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Lang: English. Work at various location in Canada & USA. Contact: Balwinder from Metro Transport ltd.12772 82nd Ave, Surrey, V3W 3G1 E-mail your resume at metro_transport@yahoo.ca.

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1 Optical Frame Fitter Reqd.

Sal: $22.00/hr, 40hr/wk, +1yrs exp. or certification reqd., FT/ PT Duties: Obtain specifications for eyeglasses or contact lenses from a prescription. Assist clients in selecting eyeglasses. Grinding & polishing of lenses. Cut & edge lenses & fit lenses into frames.

May supervise or manage activities of other opticians. Lang: English. Location: 12841 96 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3V 6V9 Contact: Imran from Eye See 2020 Optical at opt_eyesee@yahoo.ca.

------------------------------Jun 06_15 Dosa Corner Restaurant Ltd in Vancouver Looking to hire an authentic south indian chef .

This is a full time permanent position. $18.50/hr. 40hrs/week.

Must have at least 3-5yrs experience in south indian cuisine & specialized knowledge in Dosas.

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management. Plan menus & quality. Orders food supplies. Mail your resume to selvamm164@ gmail.com or apply by person at DosaCorner Vancouver. 110-8248 Fraser Street.

Vancouver. B.C.. V5X 3X6 Ph: 604-324-3672.

-----------------------------------Seamstress required Seamstress (Tailor) needed Foam & Décor is looking for Full Time or Part Time Seamstress ( tailor) for drapery in Surrey.

Salary will be provided @ 12 per hour. Please call 604-594-1882 Mayuri Indian foods inc is looking to hire an Ethnic Food Cook in Surrey BC. F/T & Perm.$17/hr.

Must have at least 2-3 yrs experience in South Indian cuisine & specialized knowledge in Indian spicing. Duties: Prepare & Cook meals; Supervise Kitchen helpers; Plan menus; Ensure quality & determine food proportions; Monitor & order food supplies; Set up & oversee buffets; Manage kitchen operation. Mail resume or apply by person Mayuri indian cuisine , Unit 102A,12677 80th Ave., Surrey BC V3W 3A6 Fax: 604-572-3281 ------------------------------------English Classes for Adults Register for classes September 2-8 For more information,Visit: www. victoryesl.com Call: 604.755.7976 E-mail: victoryesl1@gmail.com ----------------------------

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Cook Require Curry junction Restaurant in White Rock need cook immediately, This is a full time permanent position for a experienced person, Depending on experience salary will be upto $21 per hr. with other benefits. Call:604-729-6741 or 604-385-1558 ---------------------------Transworld Security located at 2nd Floor, 5050, Kingsway, Burnaby BC V5H 4H2 is looking for a Static Guard, Static Guard Supervisor, Mobile Supervisor and Field Manager.

These are permanent full-time positions. Static Guard pay rate is $13.00 per hour plus vacation pay. You would be required to patrol industrial and commercial premises to prevent and detect signs of intrusion and ensure security of doors, windows and gates. Answer alarms and investigate disturbances. Monitor and authorize entrance and departure of employees, visitors and guests. Call police or fire departments in cases of emergency.

Circulate among visitors, patrons and employees to preserve order and protect property.

Static Guard Supervisor pay rate is $14.00 per hour plus vacation pay. You would be required to oversee and supervise Static Guards. You will need to ensure the duties of the Static Guards you supervise are being completed and the client’s needs are be-

S Matrimonial Seeking a suitable match for Ravidasia Sikh Boy, 30 / 5’10”, Living in Canada, B.Tech.

Please send your biodata and pics at aman.shine@gmail. com or contact +1 306 461 3131. ing met. Field Manager pay rate is $18.00 per hour plus vacation pay. You would be required to report to the Director of Operations and you are responsible for supporting, mentoring and supervising the security officers in the field. You will be required to manage the company’s field operations and resources after business hours. Mobile Supervisor pay rate is $18.00 per hour.

You would be required to provide ongoing leadership, direction and training. You need to ensure all standing orders and scheduled daily activities are carried out for each shift. You will be required to discipline staff when necessary

To PLACE YOUR AD IN THE ASIAN STAR CLASSIFIEDS Section Please

Call: 604-591-5423

COMMUNITY Free Multicultural Activities All are invited to Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society’s (PICS) wrap up event for “Many Faiths-One Common Thread” program funded by Inspirit Foundation on Friday July 24, 2015.

The program is to inspire pluralism among young Canadians (ages 1830) of different spiritual, religious and secular beliefs. Apart from a delightful multicultural dinner there will be fun activities for all.

What: Wrap up event for Many Faiths-One Common thread 12160 Beecher Street, Surrey When : Friday, July 24th 2015 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM For more info: Mukhwinder Rangi 604-596-7722 ext. 121 if you wish to attend.

-------------------------------------------Vedic Seniors Parivar Centre of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey invites South Asian Senior members to come and join, to get an unforgettable experience of our unique & favourable pot luck held every year, to be held on July 25th 2015 ( Saturday ) from 11.00 am to 2.30 pm. You will be stunned to see the variety of home made dishes prepared by the members [ vegetable snacks, vegetable South Asian dishes and mouth watering desserts ]. There will be light & live entertainment program also by our Parivar members starting at 11.30 am and is expected to continue up to 2.30 pm at Shanti Niketan hall of Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple 8321 - 140th street Surrey BC. Registration required for non members & participants, please contact Surendra Handa Coordinator at 604 - 507 - 9945 for registration.

------------------------------------------------South Asian Seniors are planning to visit Europe though 12 Nights Cruise & 3days tour of Amsterdam Holland in May 2016. The Cruise Itinerary is as follows- Starts from Amsterdam Holland, first stop 1 day visit Berlin Germany, 2nd stop for 1 day visit Tallinn Estonia, 3rd stop 2 days visit St. Petersburg Russia, 4th stop 1 day visit Helsinki Finland, 5th stop 1 day visit Stockholm Sweden, 6th stop 1 day visit Copenhagen Denmark and back to Amsterdam Holland the 13th day morning. All arrangements will be made for your Air Travel, Cruise bookings, all Excursions for all ports and Amsterdam City, Hotel stay & food in Amsterdam and also pick up service by Bus from Surrey Temple to Vancouver airport and back to Temple from Vancouver airport on return. The Cruise is by Ship Celebrity Silhouette from May 14th 2016 to May 26th 2016.

The total tour will be for 16 days from May 12th 2016 to May 28th 2016, the approx. cost per person for every thing will be around $4,000.00 US. For more info 604-507-9945 --------------------------------------------Free Community Workshops & Activities July 28–31 Improving Job Search Skills for Work Permit Holders: July 29, 1:30–3:30pm MOSAIC, 312–2555 Commercial Drive, Vancouver 604 254 9626 ext 258 ---------------------------------------------Vedic Seniors Parivar Centre of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey requests all South Asian Senior members and non members to attend International Day Of Yoga organized

by Temple’s Management on June 21st 2015 ( Sunday ) at 8.30 am. The

program will start at 8.30 am with yoga exercise by expert yogis on the Temple grounds up to 10.00 am, from 10.00 am to 11.00 am, healthy refreshment of fruits, milk shake and tea will be served, from 11.00 am to 12.00 am, a Yoga Forum ( Healthy Discussion ) will be held by expert Yogis inside main hall, and from 12.00 pm to 1.00 pm, Therapeutic yoga demonstration will be shown by expert yogis inside main hall focusing on specific problems like Back Ache, Pain in the Knees and Migraines etc. After Aarti in the Temple, pure vegetarian lunch will be served in the dining hall. Please contact Surendra Handa Coordinator Tel. 604 - 507 - 9945 for further details.

----------------------------------------SHRI DURGA HANUMAN RELIGIOUS & CULTURAL SOCIETY OF BC Cordially Invites All Devotees , Families & Friends to Participate in this very Auspicious Adhik Maas Special Puja : AUSPICIOUS PURSHOTTAM MAAS MAHA PUJA “ on SUNDAY , JULY 12 ,

2015 from 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM Followed by MAHA PRASAD . PUJA to be Conducted by : PUJYA SHRI PANDIT SHARADCHANDRA SHASTRIJI Each Family will receive a “ RADHA - PURSHOTTAM “ Photo ; so that , everybody / all Families will Actively Participate in this Auspicious Maha Puja .

DATE : SUNDAY , JULY 12 , 2015 TIME : 2.30 PM TO 5.30 PM .

PLACE : R.C. ALL SAINTS PARISH HALL , 1405 , COMO LAKE AVENUE , COQUITLAM , BC . [ @ Crestwood St / or @ Schoolhouse Street ] PROGRAM : 1] LORD PURSHOTTAM PUJA [2] LORD PURSHOTTAM SAHASTRA NAMAVALI Recitation and MAHA PUJA to be Performed with great Devotion & Faith to obtain SPECIAL BLESSINGS FROM LORD PURSHOTTAM “ [3] AARTI : 5.25 PM [4] MAHA PRASAD : 5.30 PM MAHA PRASAD Sponsored by Devotees of Shri Durga Hanuman Religious & Cultural Society of BC .

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Shri Pandit SharadChandra SHASTRIJI : [ 604 ] 291 - 6042 . Mr.& Mrs. Mansukhbhai & Kusumben Chauhan : 604-5201444 ; Mr. & Mrs. Narsihbhai & Manjulaben Dhokia : 604- 931- 4964 ; Mrs & Mr Parveen & Narinder Dhir : 604-525-4842 ; Mr. & Mrs . Yeshwin & Nalini Thaker : 778 - 217-9934 ; Mr. & Mrs. BalKrishna & Neelam Kohli : 604-515-0069 ; mr. & Mrs . Dinesh & Jyotsna Patel : 604-433-1974 ; Mr. & Mrs . Vinod & Usha Shah : 604-5227864 ; Mr. & Mrs. Girdharbhai & Neelaben Ghadia : 604-291-1155 ; Mr. & Mrs. Pyarelal & Kamlesh Walia : 604-433- 9888 ; Mr. Satpal Sharma : 604-617 - 4501 ; Dr. C.L.Pole : 604-436-3412 -------------------------------------------Vedic Seniors Parivar Centre of Vedic Hindu Cultural Society Surrey invites South Asian Adults/ Senior members and also non members to attend Educational Awareness Presentation, How to Save Money & How To Make Money by Harjeet Aulakh Senior Marketing Director with World Financial Group and Sunil Kumar Kapadia also with World Financial Group,

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BRICS bank launched in China as alternative to World Bank, IMF

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by BRICS nations, including India, as an alternative to the World Bank and IMF to boost infrastructure funding in the emerging economies and offer them tailor-made services was launched here on Tuesday. The opening ceremony of the New Development Bank (NDB) was held here in China’s financial capital. Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei, Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong and the bank’s President K V Kamath attended the opening ceremony. Kamath, 67, who will be the bank’s president for the first five years, said he was confident of delivering on people’s expectations from the new bank. “Countries should closely cooperate,” Kamath, a former executive with India’s largest private bank ICICI Bank, said. “We will

listen carefully to our members and try to offer tailor-made services for them,” he said.

BRICS economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — launched the multi-billion dollar development bank at the 7th BRICS summit held in the Russian city of Ufa on July 8 amid efforts to finance infrastructure projects, mainly in member countries. “The NDB will supplement the existing international financial system in a healthy way and explore innovations in governance models,” Lou said at a seminar following the launch of the bank. “Its creation is to meet the urgent demand of such countries in infrastructure construction and beyond,” he said, adding it will complement the existing international banking system, instead of challenging it.

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eaders of the BRICS emerging market nations launched a $100 bil- ing the biggest contribution, $41 billion, follion development bank and a cur- lowed by $18 billion each from Brazil, India rency reserve pool in their first concrete and Russia and $5 billion from South Africa.

7. The bank will help fund infrastep toward reshaping the Western-domstructure and sustainable development inated international financial system. The projects, the summit declaration said. new development bank will mirror the 8.

The Contingent Reserve Arrangement Washington-based World Bank while the will have $100 billion at its disposal to head reserve is seen as a “mini-IMF.” Here is off potential economic volatility linked to the all you need to know about BRICS bank: United States exiting its stimulus policy. 9.

1. The development bank will have Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff left open initial capital of $50 billion that could the possibility of using the fund to help nonrise to $100 billion, funded equally by BRICS nations, saying the group would be willeach nation to avoid concerns that one ing to “examine” any request from Argentina, country has more power than the other.

2. After drawn-out negotiations about which is in danger of defaulting on its debt.

10. The bank and fund, however, have to the bank’s location, BRICS be ratified by each BRICS leaders agreed to put its “7th BRICS sum- country’s legislature beheadquarters in Shangmit held in the Rus- fore coming into force. hai. 3. India will preside sian city of Ufa on 11. An Africa Regionover its operations for the July 8 amid efforts al Center will be based in first five years, followed to finance infraSouth Africa, whose Presby Brazil and then Russia. structure projects, ident Jacob Zuma failed 4. The new bank remainly in member to convince his peers to flects the growing inplace the bank’s headcountries. fluence of the BRICS, quarters in Johannesburg. which account for almost 12.

Negotiations to create the bank dragged half the world’s population and about on for more than two years as Brazil and India one-fifth of global economic output. fought China’s attempts to get a bigger share 5. The long-awaited bank is the first major in the lender than the others.

In the end, Braachievement of the BRICS countries - Brazil, zil and India prevailed in keeping equal eqRussia, India, China and South Africa - since uity at its launch, but fears linger that China, they got together in 2009 to press for a bigthe world’s No. 2 economy, could try to assert ger say in the global financial order created greater influence over the bank to expand its

by Western powers after World War Two political clout abroad.

China, however, will and centered on the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 6. China is mak- not preside over the bank for two decades.

Ottawa posts $3.9B surplus to start 2015 fiscal year

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he federal government posted a surplus of $3.9 billion in April and May and is on track to balance the budget for the 2015 fiscal year as a whole, the Department of Finance said Wednesday.

Ottawa’s fiscal year starts in April and for the first two months of the year the government posted a surplus, the department said. For comparison purposes, in the same period last year the government posted a $1.1 billion deficit.

During April and May revenues increased by $5.5 billion, or 12.8 per cent, largely reflecting increases in income taxes, excise taxes and duties, the government said.

“Personal income tax revenues were up $1.9 billion, or 9.2 per cent, in the April to

May 2015 period while corporate income tax revenues rose $0.5 billion, or 9.0 per cent.”

All in all, Ottawa took in $49.05 billion compared with $43.5 billion last year.

That revenue figure also includes proceeds of the sale of the government’s remaining stake in GM, which went through in April when Ottawa sold more than 73 million shares in the company. The government has not released a figure of how much they sold the shares for, but based on GM’s stock price on public markets at the time, that would have raised more than $3.4 billion for government coffers.

The revenue bump offset expenses, which were up $0.6 billion, or 1.5 per cent compared to last year.

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Ontario Liberals are drive Canada’s largest province towards humongous debt ntario, the world’s most in- cited infrastructure spending that will lead debted sub-sovereign bor- to a “very high” 267 per cent debt-to-revrower, is ploughing ahead enue level in the next two years. The S&P with Canada’s most ambi- move “has had no material impact” on bortious infrastructure plan — risking the rowing plans, Kelsey Ingram, spokeswomcensure of Standard & Poor’s and under- an for provincial Finance Minister Charles performance for its $307 billion of bonds. Sousa, said via e-mail. Ontario intends to The nation’s most-populous province issue about $31.1 billion this fiscal year, is keeping a goal of spending $130 billion which includes funds for roads, transit, waover the next decade on work such as roads ter infrastructure, schools and hospitals, the and mass transit in Toronto even after S&P province announced in its annual budget dropped its credit grade this month to in April. That’s down from $44 bilthe lowest level ever. Yield spreads lion in fiscal 2009-2010. P3s are on some of the province’s debt “an innovative way of financing reached the widest since Janand procuring large, complex uary after the ratings move. public infrastructure projOntario, with about 13.7 milects,” said Andrew Forgione, a lion residents, wants to carry out spokesman for Brad Duguid, some of the projects using pubminister of economic developlic-private partnerships, or P3s, an ment, employment, and infraapproach it used to build the athlete’s structure. “It makes the best use of village for this month’s Pan Am Games in private-sector resources and expertise to proToronto. While bringing in the private sector vide on- time, on-budget project delivery.” may reduce risk or speed up work, Ontario Underweight Investor would still have to borrow for the financing.

In the last nine years, Ontario has fi“It’s not free debt,” Mario Angastinio- nanced 75 major projects using the methtis, an analyst at S&P in Toronto, said by od, including the Union-Pearson Express phone Thursday. “The P3 is just an al- train linking Toronto’s largest airport to the ternative vehicle for financing, it’s not a downtown financial corridor of Bay Street. different way that doesn’t cost you any- Officials also worked with private developers thing. You’re still adding to your debt.” on the Pan Am games venues and athletes’ Debt Pile While Ontario’s population is village, where about 10,000 competitors are about one third of California’s, its debt load staying. Malcolm Jones is one investor who is more than double that of the biggest U.S. pulled out of Ontario bonds after the Liberstate. S&P cut Ontario one step on July 6 al Party unveiled a fiscal plan in 2014 that to A+, the fifth-highest level. The company increased spending and swelled the deficit.

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CPP expansion would decrease private savings: Fraser Institute

ompulsory savings in public pension plans like the Canada Pension Plan can reduce private savings, limiting the financial flexibility of Canadians, says a new study from the Fraser Institute.

The report argues that expanding CPP, or creating new compulsory savings vehicles like the proposed Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, can have unintended negative consequences for some Canadians who could benefit more from investments in Registered Retirement Savings Plans, Tax-Free Savings Accounts, home equity and other vehicles. The Fraser Institute analyzed private savings rates between 1996 and 2004, when CPP contribution rates were increased from 5.6 per cent to 9.9 per cent of insurable earnings. It found that each percentage point increase in CPP contribution rates led private savings rates to decrease by almost the same amount, even after accounting for other factors like interest rate fluctuations.

Canadians under 30 years old saw the largest reduction in private savings, while the savings rate dropped least for Canadians nearing retirement age.

The report concludes that some Canadians could benefit more from flexible retirement savings vehicles like RRSPs, which allow assets to be transferred to beneficiaries after death, and also let firsttime home buyers withdraw funds for a down payment.

“The key to providing retirement income through savings is a set of rules that allows for an optimal mix of savings for different people in different stages of life and with different preferences,” says the

report.

“It’s something that we’re not talking about as we debate whether to expand CPP nationally, and certainly it’s not being talked about in the context of the ORPP,” says Charles Lammam, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute and a co-author of the study. “We should be thinking about what we would lose if we were to expand CPP.” Analysis criticized as ‘misleading’ The Fraser Institute’s analysis of CPP is “misleading,” says Andrew Jackson, an economist and senior policy adviser with the Broadbent Institute.

“I think they commit an elementary economic error in the analysis … if you’re comparing savings through the CPP to savings through RRSPs, the returns on investment are much higher in the Canada Pension Plan and other large pension plans,” says Jackson. The CPP Investment Board currently boasts an eight per cent annualized rate of return over 10 years, and 12.3 per cent over five years.

Lammam, however, points out that the CPPIB’s rate of return isn’t the same as the rate of return received by CPP contributors, and argues that CPP returns are actually much lower than people think, especially for younger Canadians who have had to pay more into the program than their predecessors. Almost two thirds of Canadians say CPP should be expanded with increased contributions and benefits, according to a Forum Research poll released today. Canadians aged 55 and older and Canadians earning less than $40,000 a year expressed especially strong support for an expanded CPP.

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he Akali Dal has started its action mi Party (AAP), saying, “The real anti-poor plan to take part in the 2017 Assem- face of the AAP is exposed from the fact that bly elections in Uttar Pradesh. SAD Arvind Kejriwal has set aside more than Rs president Sukhbir Badal today said the party 500 crore for publicity on the state’s exchewould contest coming assembly elections in quer against the meagre Rs 10 crore publicity Uttar Pradesh and the process to shortlist in charges was under way. “The SAD will soon appoint five in charges in Uttar Pradesh. They will be belonging to Punjab and set up party unit there.

Though the number of seats Sukhbir Singh Badal being honoured by villagers in Muktsar and from where elections will be contested is budget of the Punjab government. This fund not decided as of now, the party will contest could have been diverted to construct streets, from everywhere having possibility to win on roads and develop other infrastructure rather its own symbol,” said Sukhbir, while talking than spending on publicity.” to The Tribune. He took on the Aam Aad-

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Mega investor summit fails to deliver

he worst fears of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on the industry not keeping its promise on investment seem to have come true. Badal had, at the ‘Progressive Punjab Investors Summit’ on December 9, 2013, aired his apprehensions that the 117 memorandums of understanding (MoUs), entailing an assured investment of Rs 65,000 crore, could remain just that — MoUs. He had, thus, urged the industry captains, gathered at Mohali, to transform their MoU into a “Memorandum of Commitment” whereby they would be duty-bound to invest in Punjab. A year-and-a-half after the mega summit, all major companies have not cared two hoots about Badal’s appeal.

While several industries did not even submit

formal proposals, some projects have been awaiting regulatory clearances. The heat has yet again been generated on the success of the summit, which the Akali-BJP government had then claimed was a “major success”. The opposition Congress had dubbed it a “non-starter” since the beginning.

Leading industry body Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry) has, in a study, claimed that Punjab had failed to capitalise on its core benefits, leading to a dismal economic growth scenario where new investments attracted by the state registered a fall of over 63 per cent on year-on-year basis. It said the investments fell from over Rs 7,200 crore in 2013-14 to about Rs 2,600 crore in 2014-15.

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Chief Parliamentary Secretary threatens “fast unto death” unless RS 10 crore are spent in her area

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hief Parliamentary Secretary Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, after being “cold-shouldered” by the state government, threatened to sit on fast-untodeath if a grant of Rs10 crore for construction of roads in her Amritsar East Assembly segment is not released within a fortnight.

Dr Sidhu served the ultimatum to the government after meeting Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal during his Sangat Darshan program at Jandiala Guru here. She said: “I had been seeking an appointment with Badal for the last eight months, but could not succeed in meeting him due to his hectic schedule. I even returned from Chandigarh thrice without meeting him. Therefore, I decided to meet him at his Sangat Darshan.” She lamented that it had been threeand-a-half years since she became an MLA, but nothing had been done in her constituency. “All my files are pending with various ministries. Every time I check their status the ministers tell me that it has to be cleared by the CM,” she said. Launching a scathing attack on the state government, she wondered, “They’ve recently announced Rs212 crore for Bathinda, a city where they’ve already spent around Rs500 crore. Is only Bathinda their city in the entire state? Is Amritsar not their city?” She said on one hand, the CM was distributing Rs10 lakh to Rs15 lakh in every village during his Sangat Darshan programmes,

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Punjab) are non-entities. “The state executive had recalled Chhotepur. He has no authority to caution me on my statements. Sanjay Singh is also a non-entity.” Dr Gandhi said he follows politics of principles. “We have demanded the implementation of the decision of the state executive which removed Chhotepur. This is no indiscipline.” Khalsa had questioned the recent reorganisation of the party where AAP leaders from outside the state are calling the shots, but the party MPs who won four seats in the state were not in the reckoning anywhere. He and Dr Gandhi had criticised the party’s direction to seek their report card from them. Specifically pointing out MP Khalsa, Chhotepur said indiscipline would not be tolerated. Chhotepur said, “One should not harm the party’s interests at such a crucial juncture by raising issues which are meant only for in-house discussions.” He said the party’s senior leadership, especially Arvind Kejriwal, has always heard their grievances very intently and given appropriate solutions every time.”

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Jagraon Senior Superintendent of Police Ravcharan Brar said: “Khalsa was feeling exhausted following frequent visits by supporters at the Civil Hospital. His health worsened at night after coupon -to the DMCH.” which he with wasthisrushed Khalsa’s expires son Dec.Ravinderpal Singh 31 Goggi said his father had fallen unconscious. “He is not responding and may have slipped into coma,” he said.

Sources said if the 80-year-old activist did not respond well to the treatment, he might be shifted to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh or All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. Doctors at the Civil Hospital said they did not have adequate equipment to treat critical patients.

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but when it came to her constituency, the government did not have any money. She said Rs10 crore was supposed to be sanctioned for Amritsar East from the Amritsar Improvement Trust under Section 69-A. “A resolution was passed in December 2014 and estimates were also prepared for the works to be carried out. Subsequently, roads were dug up to lay sewerage and water supply lines, anticipating release of funds for construction of roads, but I got nothing. Now, people are up in arms against me, saying they are living in pathetic condition during the monsoon,” she rued.

AAP leaders in war of words

ith almost half of the original unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) disillusioned and others, including the state disciplinary committee head, suspended for “indiscipline”, there seems to be no end to the division and bickering in the party with leaders continuing to challenge one another’s authority. A vertical split emerged today in its group of four MPs with the state convener cautioning two — Harinder Singh Khalsa and Dr Dharamvira Gandhi – on their open criticism of the party.

AAP state convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur in a strongly worded statement told MPs Dr Dharamvira Gandhi from Patiala and Harinder Singh Khalsa from Fatehgarh Sahib to discuss matters of the party in-house, rather than openly criticising the party’s senior leadership in the press using inappropriate language. Reacting sharply, Harinder Singh Khalsa said that Chhotepur and Sanjay Singh (observer,

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Earlier during the day, Civil Hospital doctors had reportedly isolated Khalsa and began his forced treatment after his condition deteriorated. The police and doctors, however, maintained no such treatment had been administered and Khalsa had been put in isolation since he was tired.

Khalsa has been on a “fast unto death” since January 16 demanding the release of 65 Sikh convicts languishing in jails after serving their sentences. Khalsa reportedly fainted this morning, prompting doctors to move him into isolation. Brar said he was shifted so that he could take rest. Tempers ran high after the authorities denied entry to Dal Khalsa activists led by president HS Dhami and spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh who came to meet Khalsa. Khalsa’s daughter Sarvinder Kaur and supporters were asked to leave the room where Khalsa was kept after a team led by Deputy Commissioner Rajat Aggarwal, the SSP and Civil Surgeon arrived there. Sarvinder was later allowed to meet her father. She claimed Khalsa resisted attempts by doc-

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Mumbai bomber Yakub Memon’s mercy plea rejected

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he blasts in India’s financial capital killed 257 people and wounded 713 India’s Supreme Court has rejected a final mercy plea of a man found guilty of financing the 1993 serial bombings in the western city of Mumbai. Yakub Memon (pictured) will be the first person to be executed in India since a Kashmiri man, Afzal Guru, was hanged in 2013 for the 2001 attack on India’s parliament. The blasts in India’s financial capital killed 257 people and wounded 713. The attacks were allegedly organised to avenge the killings of Muslims in riots a few months earlier.Memon is scheduled to be executed later this month. Before the Supreme Court hearing, the Maharashtra state government announced plans to hang him on 30 July. In 2007, a special court in Mumbai handed out the death pen-

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alty to Memon, a chartered accountant, for playing a key role in the bombing conspiracy.

He is now lodged in a prison in the western city of Nagpur. A total of eight members of the Memon family were initially accused of masterminding the bombings and dispersing funds for the attacks. The eldest brother fled the country, and three other family members were acquitted for lack of evidence.

Parliament session begins on stormy note

ndia’s new session of parliament has been disrupted with opposition parties demanding the resignation of three ruling BJP leaders mired in scandals. Members of the main opposition Congress party stormed the chamber and forced the speaker to halt proceedings. They are demanding investigations into a massive college entrance exam fraud and alleged favours given to a business tycoon by the foreign minister. PM Narendra Modi has appealed to the opposition to help push through bills. The BJP is hoping to use this session to push through tax and land reform bills. “We all have to work together to take important decisions for the development of the nation,” Mr Modi told reporters outside parliament on Tuesday.

“I am hopeful that the parliament will live up to the country’s expectations to act as a medium for constructive debate.”

The turbulence over Lalit Modi controversy and the Vyapam scam stalled the proceedings in Parliament for the second consecutive day today with an unrelenting Opposition insisting on the resignations of three top BJP leaders. The ruling BJP not only rejected the demand, but also countered the Congress by raising “corruption” issues linked to its chief ministers in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, Harish Rawat and Virbhadra Singh.

Opposition leaders have called for the resignations of Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje for helping former IPL cricket chief Lalit Modi, who lives in London and is wanted by Indian authorities. The opening of the upper house was disrupted by opposition members protesting at Ms Swaraj’s alleged role in helping Lalit Modi to obtain a passport.

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Britain should pay for colonizing India: Shashi Tharoor

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hould Britain pay reparations to its former colonies, including India?

An articulation of why the former holder of empire should make amends, or at least say sorry, for two centuries of colonial rule, has sent a video of Indian law maker Shashi Tharoor (pictured) viral and opened up a debate in India.

In a 15 minute speech given during a debate at the Oxford Union in the U.K., telegenic and floppy-haired Mr. Tharoor, who is a former foreign minister and a onetime under-secretary-general at the United Nations, argued that “Britain’s rise for 200 years was financed by its depredations in India.”

Speaking in favor of the motion, the opposition Congress party politician said that India’s share of the world economy when the British arrived was 23% but by the time they left it had slipped to 4% because “India had been governed for the benefit of Britain. Britain’s rise for 200 years was financed by its depredations in India.”

“In fact, Britain’s industrial revolution was actually premised upon the de-industrialization of India,” he added. The YouTube clip of the Congress politician’s oration has been watched more than 1.5 million times since it was uploaded last week, making it one of the most-viewed clips from the Oxford Union, a prestigious debate chamber at the University of Oxford. Others to have appeared at in the red-walled debate chamber in the recent past include Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, former U.S. Senator John Edwards, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and onetime South African President F.W. De Klerk. Indian social media lit up with praise for Tharoor’s eloquence and ability to

take on the British establishment: Opposing speakers in the debate included Sir Richard Ottaway, a politician with the United Kingdom’s right-wing Conservative party. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who belongs to Congress’s rival the Bharatiya Janata Party, praised Tharoor for the speech. On Thursday at a gathering of ministers at the Speaker’s Research Initiative for Parliamentarians where Tharoor was seated in the front row, Modi said in Hindi that the argument had resonated with “patriotic Indians.” The premier was speaking to ministers on the effectiveness of a good debate and used Tharoor as an example. It shows the importance of saying the right thing at the right time in the right place, Modi said.

But not everyone in India thought Tharoor’s argument was watertight. One writer on Indian website Akkarbakar.com, a blog which allows readers to submit comment pieces, said that Tharoor’s argument was flawed. “About racial, and ethnic and religious tensions being a by-product of British colonialism. Let me tell you that the caste system was more than prevalent in India. Well before British set foot,” Sifar Aks wrote.

During the Oxford debate, Tharoor had said “the fact remains that many of today’s problems in these countries including the persistence and in some cases the creation of racial, of ethnic, of religious tensions were the direct result of colonialism. So there is a moral debt that needs to be paid.” “To simply say sorry will go a far, far longer way than some percentage of GDP in the form of aid,” Tharoor added.

Minister for Defense and Minister for Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, visited the Vancouver home of Swarup Mann last week to meet Mann’s family and friends. Photos

by Chandra Bodalia.

Lok Sabha adjourns – a few seconds after opening Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Friday adjourned the House until Monday within seconds of its commencement as the opposition Congress and the government engaged in a battle of nerves over the former’s demand for the resignations of three senior ruling party leaders for their alleged roles in the Lalit Modi and Vyapam rows.

The government has consistently rejected the Congress’s demand.

Outside the House, the BJP gunned for the Congress with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari slamming Rahul Gandhi for calling External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj a “criminal”.

The government has threatened Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi with criminal defamation if he didn’t immediately apologise for accusing Sushma of committing a criminal act.

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“Rahul Gandhi is used to playing childish politics. His accusations against union foreign minister amounts to criminal defamation.

He should either apologise or prepare to face defamation charges,” Gadkari told reporters outside Parliament in line with the government’s strategy to go on the offensive over the Congress charges of graft against BJP leaders.

Rahul had on Thursday attacked Sushma Swaraj.

Earlier today, just before Parliament commenced, BJP members protested outside the Houses against alleged corruption in Congress-ruled states.

Inside Lok Sabha, the opposition appeared divided on its anti-BJP strategy with the Congress and RSP demanding adjournment of proceedings for discussions on the Lalit Modi row, and CPM seeking one on Vyapam row.

16 arrested for beheading a woman as part of ‘witchcraft

olice in India say they have held 16 people in connection with the killing of a woman after practising witchcraft. Purni Orang, 63, was stripped naked and beheaded by villagers in Indian state of Assam, after she was blamed for illness in a tribal settlement in Sonitpur district. Among those arrested were nine women.

Police in Assam say nearly 90 people, mostly women, have been beheaded, burnt alive or stabbed to death after such accusations over the last six years.

Branding women as witches is particularly prevalent among tribal communities and tea plantation workers in the state.

The police said the villagers in Sonitpur district had killed another woman after branding her a witch some seven years ago.

A group of villagers have protested at the local police station, demanding the release of those arrested. “Purni was a witch

and had cast evil spells on her enemies, there is no place for such sorcerers and so her killing is justified”, Kiran Teronpi, a villager, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

In October, an Indian athlete Debjani Bora was severely beaten after being branded a witch in Assam.

Experts say superstitious beliefs are behind some of these attacks.

Minister for Defense and Minister for Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, visited the Indian Multicultural Centre (No 5 Road Gurdwara) in Richmond last week to meet community members. Photos by Chandra Bodalia.

Minister for Defense and Minister for Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, visited the Indian Multicultural Centre (No 5 Road Gurdwara) in Richmond last week to meet community members. Photos by Chandra Bodalia.

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More than $74,000 in dishonoured cheques in PM’s office account

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ore than $74,000 worth of dishonoured cheques was recorded by the Auditor- General’s Report in 2011 in the Prime Minister’s Office account. Public Accounts Committee member Balmindar Singh questioned the Prime Minister’s Office at the hearing yesterday on what steps it had taken or whether this had been written off. Because of this, Singh said, cheques had bounced from banks and came back to the ministry. This, he said, showed the unavailability of the pay as you earn or the return that needed to be paid to Gov-

Fiji-born girl to represent Australia in ‘Miss Universal’

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iji-born Indian model Pooja Priyanka has been selected to represent Australia in the 2015 edition of “Miss Universal Peace and Humanity” pageant to be held in Dubai from August 18 to 30, a media report said on Tuesday.

“I am both humbled and honoured to be representing my country Australia in the annual pageant in Dubai this 2015,” Priyanka posted on Facebook, the Fiji Times reported. “I am looking forward to meet all the beautiful contestants from over 80 countries and can’t wait to work with all of them to take on challenges we face in our world today,” said Priyanka, who is also a dancer and actor.

ernment. Dishonoured cheques, a cheque which the bank will not pay, because there is not enough money in the account to pay it. Principal accounts officer Moape Rokosuka said cheques were given six months to be presented to the banks. “For us at the office of the Prime Minister, we don’t receive any revenue,” Rokosuka said. “What has been receipted comes in the cases of people given advances and they retire the balances or when staff member are given an OPR payment, where some of them preferred to be paid in cash.”

Diabetes is number two killer

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iabetes has been ranked as the number two killer in the country. This was confirmed by the Health and medical Services Minister Jone Usamate .

According to Usamate, the increase in diabetes and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cases in the country were of great concern to his ministry.

Usamate said the number of diabetes cases in the country increased every year.

He said more work was needed to be done to address the issue.

“Although we are faced with unprecedented problem of enormous proportions with diabetes and other NCDs reaching epidemic levels, we should now move away from the problem-focused mind-set towards solutions orientation,” he said. Usamate said the ministry hoped to establish a comprehensive list of all organisations in Fiji that would be involved in diabetes and NCDs and create active liaisons among these organisations to foster resource sharing. “We need novel ideas to tackle our issues, but we must carry this out in an orderly manner,” he said.

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Usamate reminded participants at the Diabetes Wellness Congress that their ideas and opinions would help the ministry in tackling NCDs.

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She was second runner-up in “Miss Face of Beauty” international pageant 2014.

“Miss Universal Peace and Humanity 2015” is an international beauty contest founded by the World Peace Mission Organisation under the patronage of the International Human Rights Commission (IGO). “The aim is to awaken, through the theme of peace, the peoples of all countries to create a peaceable, fraternal and harmonious world community,” says the organisation’s website.

India-born model-turned-actress Ruhi Singh was crowned “Miss Universal Peace and Humanity” in the 2014 edition of the charity event.

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The Lautoka Magistrates Court has set October 17 as the hearing date for Local Government Minister Parveen Kumar who is charged with one count causing death by dangerous driving. Kumar’s lawyer Shalend Krishna asked for a 2016 date because he was engaged in other High Court proceedings but an official from the Director of Public Prosecutions office said an earlier date was necessary.

Medicine shortage

There is a shortage of all basic medicines in the country’s hospitals and health centres. Heath Minister Jone Usamate confirmed this during an interview. According to Usamate there was a shortage of paracetamol, penicillin, flucloxacillin, ceferixone, amoxicillin in all health centres and hospitals all over the country. He said the shortage of medicine was an ongoing issue which the ministry had been dealing with for quite some

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Gov’t may limit access to porn sites

Fijians may have limited access to certain websites containing material like pornography and radical fundamentalism in future. This was revealed at yesterday’s Security Partnerships: Future Challenges For Fiji symposium at USP. Director of National Security with the Ministry of Defence Viliame Wilikilagi said there were ongoing consultations to consider blocking

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Floods in Pakistan claim 22 lives

t least 19 more persons were killed in Pakistan due to floods triggered by monsoon rain, taking the death toll to 22, officials said today. The rain started last week in different parts of the country, causing floods in different rivers and streams. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said that seven persons were killed in Balochistan, three in Punjab province and two in Gilgit-Baltistan in the north.

Officials of Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa said torrential rains coupled with flash floods killed 10 persons across the province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Earlier, three persons were killed in the province’s Chitral district, devastated due to flash floods caused by heavy downpour.

The Upper Chitral has been virtually cut off from lower Chitral as majority of the bridges, road network, approach roads, water supply schemes, electricity installations were washed away in Upper Chitral by the gushing water in a jiffy. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has estimated Rs 1 billion damages to infrastructure.

Human rights group urges Pakistan not to hang mentally ill man

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he charity said Khizar Hayat, who was sentenced to death 12 years ago for killing a colleague, suffers from severe paranoid schizophrenia.

Authorities in Pakistan are about to resume executions after a break for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the country has executed 176 people since lifting a moratorium in December.

Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director at HRW, said executing people with mental illnesses was “a barbarous affront to decency” that “serves no criminal justice purpose”.

“Pakistan’s president should immediately commute Khizar Hayat’s execution and prevent a ghastly infringement of basic rights,” Mr Kine said.

“The Pakistani government should take this opportunity to reaffirm its human rights commitments and explicitly reject the odious practice of executing people with psychosocial disabilities.”

Pakistan to buy 8 submarines from China in multibillion-dollar deal, report says

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hina on Thursday agreed to sign a multi-billion dollar deal with Pakistan that would see Beijing provide eight submarines to the Pakistan Navy, in an agreement that analysts are calling the largest-ever defence deal China has agreed to with any country. Despite the magnitude of the deal, government officials did not provide any details, even declining to confirm the size of the transaction.

However, the composition of the Chinese delegation with which the agreement was reached suggests that the arrangements have been struck for purchase of eight submarines.

“Pakistan and China have reached an understanding on matters of defence cooperation relating to Pakistan Navy,” announced the finance ministry after a meeting with Chinese authorities.

Nawaz Sharif should not think about friendship with India: Hafiz Saeed threatens

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afiz Saeed, JuD chief and Mumbai attack mastermind warned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif against extending a hand of friendship to India under international pressure and without taking on board the Kashmiri people.

“Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should not think about one-sided friendship with India. Any such step will hurt the Kashmiris,” Saeed said. The Pakistani government

should not hold talks with India without taking the Kashmiri people on board, he said.

“Pakistan must not come under pressure from the international community over the Kashmir issue and stick to its principled stance,” he said in a statement. The warning by Saeed came after meeting between prime ministers of India and Pakistan in Russia.

Pakistan starts work on 700km pipeline to import LNG from China

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nergy-starved Pakistan has started construction work on its 700km pipeline to import liquefied natural gas from China.

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the project will be jointly funded by Pakistan and China.

Chinese funds will benefit Pakistan and allow it to complete its Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, Abbasi said.

Pakistan has been trying to overcome its energy crisis by importing gas from Iran, Abbasi said, adding that sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme had hampered the work on the project, Radio Pakistan reported on Monday.

He said Gwadar port will be the central hub for China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), allowing western China to gain access to the sea.

Court suspended execution of Christian woman convicted of blasphemy

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sia Bibi (pictured), who has been on death row for nearly five years, was given leave to appeal. No hearing date was set. She denies insulting the Prophet Mohammed, saying her Muslim accusers were acting on a personal grudge. Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Pakistan - critics argue laws are frequently misused to settle personal scores, often targeting minorities. This is the first time in the case that there has been a glimmer of hope for Asia Bibi.

She was the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and her case is one of the most controversial in Pakistan. Thousands have protested against her and said they would kill her if she were ever released - including the imam in her own village. Her husband and four daughters live in hiding and say they have received many death threats. Asia Bibi’s death sentence had been confirmed by the High Court in Punjab province in October, although no date was set. But on Wednesday, the Supreme Court suspended the sentence until the end of the appeal process. “The execution of Asia Bibi has been suspended and will remain suspended until the decision of this appeal,” her lawyer told reporters outside the court. He said key witnesses had failed to turn up during hearings by the High Court. Pakistan has never executed anyone for blasphemy but some people accused of the offence in the past have been lynched by crowds. Lawyers, judges and those seeking to reform the blasphemy laws have also been threatened, attacked or even killed. Since the 1990s, scores of Christians have been convicted for desecrating the Koran or for blasphemy. While most of them have been sentenced to death by the lower courts, many sentences have been overturned due to lack of evidence. Muslims constitute a majority of those prosecuted, followed by minority Ahmadis.

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Hyundai India launches SUV Creta, price starts at Rs 8.59 lakh

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he compact SUV market got some serious competition with Hyundai driving in the Creta, the car running in direct competition to model’s such as Renault’s Duster, Mahindra’s Scorpio and Ford’s Eco Sport.

The Creta sports an entry price of Rs 8.59 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) for the 1.6 litre petrol variant, though the diesel version - which is expected to see high action as well as competition - starts at Rs 9.46 lakh. There are two engine options in diesel - 1.4 litre and 1.6 litre.

The small SUV category was among the fastest-growing segment in the Indian car market just sometime back, though it has slowed down recently. Lack of new products and the narrowing gap between petrol and diesel fuel prices are among the reasons behind the slowdown.

Analysts, however, expect that new products such as the Creta and the impending entry of a new SUV by Maruti Suzuki will add volumes and a high growth rate to the segment. And the action is only set to get stronger - new compact SUVs are also planned by Volkswagen, Toyota, General Motors and Tata Motors.

“We are confident that the Creta will help us establish a strong position in the compact SUV segment,” Hyundai India MD BS Seo said.

Creta is the first low-cost SUV from the Korean manufacturer and has been developed on the platform which gave birth to the ‘ix25’ SUV which is being sold in China. “We have taken heavy inputs from the R&D team in India before driving the product here,” Seo said.

Sales of Hyundai have gone up 7% in the first quarter of this fiscal on the

Creta is being launched globally for the first time in India. The roll-out of the five-seater SUV in the country would be followed by launches in other international markets. back of new launches, mainly the Elite i20 compact. The company now intends to drive in a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV), the only category where it does not have a product, Seo said.

The compact SUV market in India was originally created by the Duster, which got a strong showing for the Renault brand in India. However, the Duster has failed to keep pace with its initial success as competition became aggressive.

Another product to have got success in the category has been Ford’s Eco Sport, though the company played heavily on the pricing front by keeping the vehicle’s length under 4 meters which qualified it as a small car and avail lower excise duty.

The Scorpio has been one of the oldest model to have created the lowcost SUV segment, though its big size and relatively-rugged driving characteristics had seen other players emerge strongly in the category.

Industry officials said that the desire for SUVs remains high for a variety of reasons.

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2016 Audi RS3

hy this isn’t in Canadian showrooms right now is a tragedy of supply, demand bitch-slapping us like the invisible hand of denial.The Audi RS3 hatchback. The forbidden fruit of the forbidden fruit we sampled on our most recent European excursion. Why this isn’t in Canadian showrooms right now is a tragedy of supply, demand and business cases bitch-slapping us like the invisible hand of denial. But we drove it. And we can’t get it out of our heads. Based on the same MQB architecture underpinning the A3 and shared by such Autos.ca favourites as the VW Golf, GTI and Audi TT, the RS3 is the most aggressive example we’ve driven yet. The weather was perfect when we set out from our little resort on the shores of Austria’s Worthersee: warm and rainy. Perfect for demonstrating the range of Audi’s Quattro allwheel-drive system when tuned for maximum attack by Audi’s RS division. The RS3’s pulsating heart is a familiar one, the turbo inline-five-cylinder from the previous generation TT RS and Europe-only RS Q3, and an engine that can trace its lineage back to the original Quattro Coupes and rally cars of legend. Here we see 2.5L of displacement, direct fuel injection and a single turbocharger boosting the plant all to smithereens, earning this fast-five 367 hp from 5,500 to 6,800 rpm and 343 lb-ft of torque almost straight off the deck at 1,625 rpm.

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or at least that coarseness perfected into an art form. But it doesn’t just make noises.

Turns out it helps the car go, too. More fun, rain or shine: Comparison Test: Affordable Everyday Fun Cars Audi’s official estimate to 100 km/h is 4.3 seconds, served up courtesy of the seven-speed dual-clutch S Tronic transmission and a version of Quattro all-wheel drive that can send fully all of its power to the rear wheels if necessary.

While wet roads meant we couldn’t replicate that type of launch, it surely satisfied our hungry right foot. We had only a short time in the vehicle, and few standing starts, but where the RS3 showed its mettle was on repeated bursts of acceleration from dawdling highway speeds to impound speeds here in North America.

A series of tunnels en route from Austria back to Munich also served to highlight the glorious noises of berserker downshifts and cackling (from the driver and engine) bursts of acceleration. The speed isn’t all by virtue of outright power and traction, as the 1,520-kg current generation shed 55 kilos over its predecessor, thanks in no small part to the partial-aluminum MQB architecture, which also lends greater strength to the frame, allowing greater precision in the application of suspension fixings.

Front MacPherson struts are paired with high-strength aluminum pivot bearings and progressive steering that tightens the ratio from 15.3:1 to 10.9:1 when pressing on in full-boogie mode.

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